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MIGRATION

MIGRATION. Why We Move to and fro. Why Do people migrate?. Push and Pull Factors Push Factors: Elements of agricultural life that force people off the farm Examples of Push Factors: Armed Conflicts, Environmental Hazards, High cost of land

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MIGRATION

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  1. MIGRATION Why We Move to and fro

  2. Why Do people migrate? • Push and Pull Factors • Push Factors: Elements of agricultural life that force people off the farm • Examples of Push Factors: • Armed Conflicts, Environmental Hazards, High cost of land • Pull Factors: Factors of cities that draw people to urban landscape • Examples of Pull Factors: • Job Opportunities, Higher Pay, Access to healthcare and education, entertainment • Life Course Changes • People move because of major changes in their life • Examples: going to college, moving for a better job, retiring

  3. Types of migration • Forced: ordered by government or ruling body to move or war, disaster, or government repression can force migration (refugees) • (As a sidenote-many countries have programs for refugees where they grant them asylum or safety from the threat or better yet amnesty programs that allow illegal immigrants to gain citizenship) • Step: people move up in a hierarchy of locations, each one more advantageous • (farm, town, outside of city, city) As a sidenote this is the most difficult type of migration because obstacles aka intervening opportunities will keep migrants from moving to next best location • Chain: influential individual or group settles in a location creating a migrant vacuum, immigrant community (Somali Bantu’s in San Antonio)

  4. Where do I move to? • Inter-regional or Internal Migrants-move from one part of a country to another part of the country • Transnational-migrants move from one country to another country • ex. Transnational labor migrants-work a limited time before returning to home country (Cyclic Movement) If workers are seasonal for instance those who work in agriculture from Mexico to the US its called (Periodic Movement) • Remittances-cash transfers sent from transnational migrants to their families back home. • Frostbelt to Sunbelt Shift-a movement in the US where many have left colder more populated regions to move to the south for warmer weather (population centers move to Atlanta, Orlando, Houston, Albuquerque, Los Angeles

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