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Migration

Migration. 3 Axioms. Humans are fundamentally hopeful If place can be changed, most people think that reality can be changed Migration is a way humans express hope. Known Worlds. Known world has expanded with time Known world is ever longer Known world radius expanded. Migration.

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Migration

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  1. Migration

  2. 3 Axioms • Humans are fundamentally hopeful • If place can be changed, most people think that reality can be changed • Migration is a way humans express hope

  3. Known Worlds • Known world has expanded with time • Known world is ever longer • Known world radius expanded

  4. Migration • Breaking social and economic web of life through movement

  5. Goal Area • Target area: place moving to

  6. Hearth • Place from which person came

  7. Feedback • News of success or failure in earlier migrants

  8. Mental Map • Images the migrant has of the goal area

  9. Intervening Obstacles • Impediments between hearth and goal areas

  10. Intervening Opportunities • Opportunities arising between hearth and goal areas

  11. Spatial Distance • Obvious or actual linear distance between hearth and goal areas

  12. Psychic Distance • Intensity of cultural change one has to absorb when going from hearth area to goal area

  13. Forced Migration • Not of one’s own choice

  14. Life Cycle Migration • Migrations tend to coincide with life cycles

  15. Migration Catalysts • War and calamity • Economics • Religious and social conditions • Political conditions • Environmental conditions

  16. Migration Streams • Rural to urban • Rural to rural • Urban to rural • Urban to urban

  17. Based on a lecture by Kit Salter, “Geography and the Migration of Hope.” Washington, DC. July, 1989.

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