1. Ch. 3 – Migration – “I Like to Move It, Move It”
AP Human Geography
Boucher

2. Why Do People Migrate?
Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration – The reasons migrants move, the distance they move, and major characteristics of migration
Cyclic movement v. periodic movement v. migration

3. International v. Internal Migration

4. Center of Population in the United States
What can we learn from this map?

5. Why Do People Migrate? Voluntary Migration Forced Migration
Step Migration – When migrant follows a path of a series of stages toward a final destination (farm to town to suburb to city)
Chain Migration – When migrant communicates to family and friends at home, encouraging further migration along the same path
Creates Chinatowns, “Little Italys,” etc.
Holocaust
Trail of Tears
Atlantic Slave Trade
Often occurs during times of war and conflict

6. Forced Migration – African Slave Trade Across Atlantic

7. What Causes Migrants to Move?
Quick Activity!
List as many “push” factors and “pull” factors that you can think of!

8. Push, Pull, or Both? Economic Conditions Political Circumstances
Invasion of Activity Space
Armed Conflict and Civil War
Environmental Conditions
Culture and Traditions
Technological Advances

9. Global v. Regional Migration Flows
Global Migration Flows
What events historically led to global migration flows? 1. 2. 3.
Regional Migration Flows
Migrants go to neighboring countries:
For short-term economic opportunities
To reconnect with cultural groups across borders
To flee political conflict or war

10. Economic Opportunities
Islands of Development – Places within a region or country where foreign investment, jobs, and infrastructure are concentrated
In late 1800s and early 1900s, Chinese migrated throughout SE Asia to work in trade, commerce, and finance

11. Reconnecting Cultural Groups
Example:
About 700,000 Jews migrated to then-Palestine between 1900 and 1948
After 1948, when the land was divided into two states (Israel and Palestine), 600,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were pushed out of newly-designed Israeli territories

12. Immigration Issues Guest Workers
Migrants whom a country allows in to fill a labor need, assuming the workers will go “home” once the labor need subsides
Have short-term work visas
Send remittances to home country
Quotas
Limit the number of migrants from each region into a country (can be selective in nature)

13. Guest Workers to Europe

14. Refugees What is a refugee? Characteristics of a refugee:
Takes only what they can carry
Journey often by foot
Lacks documentation, has no clear destination, hopes to return home someday
Types of refugees: Political, Economic, Environmental
Impacts of Refugees?
Environmental
Social
What regions generate the most refugees?

16. Applying Migration Theory
Why are some areas more popular to move to than others? How can we predict that movement?
Gravity Model of Migration
Theory: The interaction between two places is equal to the product of the places’ populations, divided by the square of their distance apart
Impact: Large cities (New York and Los Angeles) may have extensive and important interactions, despite being separated by great distances