Unit 9 Migration Review

Types of Migration

• International

• Voluntary (Pull factors) – Better jobs and oppurnties

• Forced (Push factors) – War, food shortage.

• Internal

• Interregional – Movement from one region to another region of country a region

• Intraregional – Movement through a single region in the same state or territory

Moving from north California

Eras (Waves) of migration in the USA

1. Colonial settlement 17th-18th century – English men and western Europe

2. European immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

1. Mass immigration from east Europe, west, asia ,Africa countries to USA

3. _____________ & ____________ migration in the late 20th and early 21st centuries

Know and be able to describe the different Push and Pull factors associated with migration –
(Economic, Environmental, Social, and Political)

Lewinsky’s Migration Transition model Review

1. Stage 1 – Movement based on area

2. Stage 2 – Movement from rural to Urban

3. Stage 3 – Movement between based on cities or place

4. Stage 4 – Movement from national to international

Vocab:
• Raven stein’s Law of migration 

• Intervening obstacles and examples  illegal immigration sends people back

• Trail of tears  displacement of native Americana’s

• Refugee – Asylum seeker – Internally displaced person (IDP) refugee forced out from
homeland, asylum seekers seeks protections, help other countries then leave

• Remittance  sending money to family abroad

• Chain migration  bringing family member for visa or GC or sponsorship

• Brain-Drain emigration from a particular countries because training and work and money

• Unauthorized immigrant  illegal immigrants

• Quota Act in 1924  limitations of country.