Migration

Migration - A permanent move to a new location

Immigration - Migration from a location

Emigration - Migration to a location

VOCABULARY

Why do people migrate?

How have social, economic, political, and environmental

factors influenced migration?

QUESTIONS

People decide to migrate because of push and pull factors. A push factor induces people to leave a location. A pull factor induces

people to move to a new location.

PUSH AND PULL FACTORS

People often leave areas that are heavily populated.

PUSH FACTOR - OVERPOPULATION

When people cannot worship as they wish they migrate. The

pilgrims that landed at Plymouth were fleeing religious

persecution.

PUSH FACTOR - RELIGIOUS

PERSECUTION

The vast majority of people migrating from Latin America, Africa, and Asia are migrating

because there are no jobs.

PUSH FACTOR - LACK OF JOBS

Net migration rates: Countries in blue have a positive migration rate and countries in brown have a negative rate.

Agricultural decline means a person cannot grow as much food

on the same amount of land as they once could. Over time land becomes less fertile and people

have to move.

PUSH FACTOR - AGRICULTURAL DECLINE

People flee from wars. These people are known as refugees.

There are many refugee camps in Africa due to a long history of civil

war in many countries.

PUSH FACTOR - CONFLICT

Political persecution means that people are punished when they disagree with the government.

This happens most in dictatorships or communist

countries. People have migrated from China and Cuba because of

political persecution.

PUSH FACTOR - POLITICAL PERSECUTION

DroughtsFloods

TsunamisEarthquakes

Volcanoes

PUSH FACTOR - NATURAL HAZARDS

Communist countries often limit personal freedom. People cannot

listen to certain music, watch certain television shows, or even

say things bad about the government.

PUSH FACTOR - LIMITS ON FREEDOM

DeforestationDesertification - An expansion of

arid conditions into non-arid regions. This is a problem in the Sahel, a region near the Sahara

Desert in North Africa.

PUSH FACTOR - ENVIRONMENTAL

DEGRADATION

Religious FreedomEconomic Opportunity

Land AvailabilityPolitical Freedom

Ethnic and Family TiesArable Land

PULL FACTORS

LanguageReligion and Religious Freedom

Customs/TraditionsCultural Landscape

IMPACT OF IMMIGRATION