1. Political Cartoons… L I E

2. Political Cartoons What you are going to do… Things to consider:
Review key immigration policy from US history
Choose one to research and create a cartoon on that topic
Sketch out your idea – prior to completing on given paper
Things to consider:
You may only use labels/few words
Color is optional but it may NOT be in pencil
(don’t argue…it ain’t happenin’)
If your neighbor/mom/uncle can’t figure out what it’s about rethink your illustration

3. STOP TO COMPLETE CARTOONS

4. Migration Map
Forbes Migration Map

5. Take a minute to brainstorm what you think migration is.

6. Essential Question
Why do People Migrate?

7. Two Types of Migration
Forced Migration – Human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate.
Voluntary Migration – Human migration flows in which the movers respond to perceived opportunity, not force.

8. Forced Migration

9. Forced Migration: Refugees

10. Forced
Agim Shala passed through barbed wire fence into Albania after parents flee Kosovo

11. Post 9/11 migration
Stereotyping?

12. A massive dump site in Arizona’s Upper Altar Valley
A massive dump site in Arizona’s Upper Altar Valley. After walking 40 miles through the desert, illegal immigrants are met here by coyotes. They are told to dump their old clothes & packs and put on more “American” looking clothes the coyotes have brought. They then begin the trip to an urban stash house.

13. Mexican immigrants captured near Laredo, Texas
Barbed wire fence separates the US & Mexico east of Douglas, Arizona

14. Economic Opportunities
In late 1800s and early 1900s, Chinese migrated throughout Southeast Asia to work in trade, commerce, and finance.

15. Types of Movement
Cyclic Movement – movement away from home for a short period.
Commuting
Seasonal movement
Nomadism
Periodic Movement – movement away from home for a longer period.
Migrant labor
Transhumance
Military service

16. Migration to a location Migration from a location
Immigration
Emigration
Migration to a location
Migration from a location
When you immigrate you go in to a location, when you emigrate from a location you exit that location.

17. Where do people emigrate from?
Brainstorm!
They have been emigrating from:
Latin America
Asia
Africa
Eastern Europe
Where do you think most people emigrate from?

18. Net migration
+=Net In-Migration
-= Net Out-Migration
The difference between the number of immigrants and the number of emigrants.

19. Migration to the US from Mexico…
Push Factors
Pull Factors

22. 3 Main types of Push and Pull Factors
#1. Economic
Most people migrate from one country to another for economic reasons
job opportunities

23. #2 Cultural
Cultural factors can be especially compelling push factors forcing people to move
Refugee: people who have been forced to migrate from their homes
Forced migration has occurred for 2 reasons
Slavery
Political instability

24. Describe what you see in this picture.

25. #3 Environmental
People are pulled toward physically attractive regions
Attractive environments include:
People are also pushed from their homes by bad physical conditions
Unattractive environments include:

26. Monterssart…volcano left ½ the island uninhabitable including the capital

27. Katrina

28. Katrina Katrina Devastation – 3 minutes
No Ward: Forced Migration of Katrina Survivors – 11 minutes

29. Characteristics of Migrants
Most migrants relocate a short distance and remain within the same country
Long-distance migrants to other countries head for major centers of economic activity
Most long-distance migrants are male
Migrant families with children are increasing
Increasing female migration – social and status changes in home country
Family status
40% male ages 25 – 39
16% Children under 15
5% over 65

30. Internal Migration
Internal migration – permanent movement within the same country
Interregional migration – movement from one region of a country to another
Intraregional migration – movement within one region

32. International Migration
Voluntary migration – the migration has chosen to move for economic improvement
Forced migration – the migrant has been compelled to move by cultural factors
international migration - 7 minutes

34. Intervening Obstacles
environmental or cultural feature that hinders migration.
Hindering factors:

35. Global Population Patterns
Most international migration is from Less Developed Countries (LDC’s) to More Developed Countries (MDC’S)
United States leading destination
Most migrants relocate short distances within the same country

36. Waves of Immigration

37. Impact of Immigration on the US?
Diffusion of European Culture
Unauthorized Immigration to the US
Undocumented Immigrants
Destination of Immigrants within the US
Chain Migration

39. Fence Climbing – 1 minute
Border Volleyball – 1.5 minutes

40. Immigration Policies of Host Countries
US Quota Laws
Quota –
Brain Drain –
Guest Workers –

41. Economic Migrants v. Refugees

42. Cuban Refugees

43. Sudanese Refugees

44. Imagine you are from an extremely poor country, and you earn less than $1 a day. Choose a country to be from, and look for it on a map. Assume you are a voluntary migrant. You look at your access to transportation and the opportunities you have to go elsewhere. Be realistic, and describe how you determine where you will go, how you get there, and what you do once you get there.