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Essential Question What reasons cause people to migrate to different areas?. Migration. Why People Migrate. Push Factors : Push people to leave a place: Escape religious persecution, oppression, poverty, political conflicts, and/or environmental factors. Why People Migrate.
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Essential Question What reasons cause people to migrate to different areas? Migration
Why People Migrate • Push Factors: Push people to leave a place: • Escape religious persecution, oppression, poverty, political conflicts, and/or environmental factors
Why People Migrate • Pull Factors: Factors attracting people to leave: • Search for greater political or religious freedom • Search for economic opportunity and to reinforce cultural ties
Migration: Social Factors • Social Factors: people organizing into groups: religious groups. • Examples: Jewish Migration
Migration: Social Factors • Social Factors: people migrate when they are persecuted for being members of a specific ethnic group. • Examples: Rwanda, Holocaust • (Movie: Hotel Rwanda)
Migration: Political Factors • Political Factors: people escape political persecution to enjoy greater political freedom and rights in a new place. • Examples: Cubans Flee Communism, Flight of Afghan Refugees
Migration: Environmental and Economic Factors • Environment Factors: People move with the seasons. Changes in temperature or drought cause people to move. • Examples: Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s. • Economic Factors: People leave a place to escape poverty and find better jobs. • Examples: Early 20th Century(1900’s) immigration into the US from Southern/Eastern Europe.
Migration: Forced • Forced Migration: migration is not voluntary. Usually accompanies war and persecution of people. • Example: • Slave Trade from 1500-1800.
Physical Factors Affecting Migration Routes • People often migrate through valleys, across grasslands, and along water routes. • Groups of migrating people generally avoid natural barriers like mountains, deserts, and dense forests. • Some physical factors can change. • Land-Bridge from Siberia to Alaska
Migration Review • Using the examples mentioned in this power point, explain the importance of both “push” and “pull” factors to migration. • Both of these items determine how and when people move throughout the world affecting population of affected countries. • Can affect infrastructure and services provided in all countries involved.
Migration Review • Increasing numbers of people from Latin America have migrated to the US over the last 3 decades. What has been the primary reason for this increased migration. • to escape from the threat of Communism • to obtain religious freedom • to avoid natural disasters • to find new economic opportunities ANSWER: D
Migration Review • Which of the following is an example of human migration caused by economic “pull” factor? • Puritans migrated to Massachusetts to freely practice their religion. • Afghan refugees fled to Pakistan to escape war involving Taliban and US forces. • Turkish workers migrate to Germany after 1945 to fill jobs in that nation. • East Berliners crossed into West Berlin in the 1960s to escape Communist rule. ANSWER: C