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Chapter 3: Migration Key Issue #1: Where are Migrants Distributed? Rubenstein, pages 79‐83 As you read complete your vocabulary list.
WHERE ARE MIGRANTS DISTRIBUTED
1. What three objectives motivate migrants? (a)
(b)
(c)
2. Explain the organization of Ravenstein’s laws of migration
(a)
(b)
(c)
3. Briefly state what Wilbur Zelinsky’s theory states should be the occurrences expected, as it applies to a migration transition, in each of the demographic transition model stages.
Stage Demographic Transition Migration Transition
1 Low NIR, high CBR, high CDR
2 High NIR, high CBR, rapidly declining CDR
3 Declining NIR, rapidly declining CBR, declining
CDR
4 Low NIR, low CBR, low CDR
DISTANCE OF MIGRATION 4. How does Ravenstein’s laws of distance explain migrants travels as they search for a new home?
(a)
(b)
Chapter 3: K.I. #1 5. Why do international emigrants choose particular countries as their destination? Around the map below make
points of push or pull factors usually responsible for each of the following categories of international migration:
forced or voluntary.
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION PATTERNS
6(a) What percentage of the world’s population are international migrants?
(b) Where are the largest flow of migrants?
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
Chapter 3: K.I. #1 7. (a) What regions have highest net out‐migration?
(b) What regions have highest net in‐migration?
(a) What is the overall global pattern of migration?
U.S. IMMIGRATION PATTERNS
8. Summarize the following major eras of immigration to the U.S.:
Europe
Sub‐Saharan
1840s & 1850s
1870s
1880s
1905‐1914
Asia
Latin America
Mid‐19th to early
20th Century
17th – 18th Centuries
Late 20th to early
21th Century
Pause & Reflect: In what stage of the DTM were European countries when they sent the most immigrants to the U.S.?
Chapter 3: K.I. #1
Chapter 3: Migration Key Issue #2: Where do People Migrate Within a Country? Rubenstein, pages 84 ‐ 91 As you read complete your vocabulary list.
INTERREGIONAL MIGRATION
1. What is the most famous example of large‐scale interregional migration in the
U.S.?
2. What was the first obstacle encountered by American settlers in the country’s interior?
3. What transportation developments encouraged settlement to the Mississippi?
4. Why did most settlers pass through the Great Plains, choosing California and the West Coast instead?
5. How did railroads encourage settlement of the American interior?
6. List two reasons why in recent times, people had been immigrating to the South.
Chapter 3: K.I. #2 7. Using the figure provided, calculate the net growth/loss of U.S.
regions between the period of 1995 and 2000. Delineate and label
each region and the appropriate net growth/ loss number.
(a) Northeast
(b) Midwest
(c) South
(d) West
The following website will provide additional insight:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/16/upshot/mapping‐migration‐
in‐the‐united‐states‐since‐1900.html?_r=0
8. How has the historical migration patterns of Native‐Americans
differed from those of whites? Give example.
9. How has the historical migration patterns of African‐Americans differed from those of whites?
Pause & Reflect: What means of transportation were available to migrants crossing the United States during the different eras?
Chapter 3: K.I. #2 10. Complete the chart below using your reading
Country From Where? To Where? Why? Notes
Russia
Canada
Brazil
China
11. In what ways are interregional migration in China and Brazil similar?
Pause & Reflect:
With Russia more closely linked economically to Europe, which region of the country is most likely to attract
interregional migration?
Chapter 3: K.I. #2 INTRAREGIONAL MIGRATION
12. Complete the chart below using your reading
Urbanization Suburbanization Counter‐urbanization
13. How does intraregional migration patterns differ between MDCs and LDCs? 14. What are the attractions of the suburbs over urban areas?
Significan
t facts
Pause & Reflect:
What changes in communication and transportation might make counter‐urbanization easier or harder?
Chapter 3: Migration Key Issue #3: Why do People Migrate? Rubenstein, pages 92‐95 As you read complete your vocabulary list.
REASONS FOR MIGRATING
1. Use specific examples of push & pull factors to complete the chart.
PUSH FACTORS PULL FACTORS
Political
Environmental
Economic
MIGRATING to FIND WORK
Pause & Reflect:
What would it take for Ireland to once again have net in‐migration?
Why are street cleaning and construction jobs attractive for immigrants to Europe and Southwest Asia?
Chapter 3: K.I. #3
4. What are the benefits of being a guest‐worker?
(b) What has happened to the program?
5. Explain why areas, such as Southwest Asia have little or no guest workers?
6. Read the following articles:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/15/guardian‐view‐on‐the‐mediterranean‐boat‐people‐
europe‐cannot‐evade‐humanitarian‐responsibilities
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/24/us‐europe‐migrants‐idUSKBN0FT1UK20140724
(a) What are the causes of this mass migration? What are the main countries/region of origin for these
refugees?
(b) What is the EU’s policy in response to this type of immigration?
(c) Is the EU policy causing particular hardship for particular countries?
(d) What recent events have turned Europe against refugee aid?
Chapter 3: K.I. #3
(e) Is this phenomena happening anywhere else in the world?
Chapter 3: Migration Key Issue #4: Why do Migrants Face Obstacles? Rubenstein, pages 96 ‐ 103 As you read complete your vocabulary list.
1. Briefly describe the role each of the following in relation to migration and intervening
obstacles.
(a) physical geography
(b) transportation
(c) political concerns/ laws
CONTROLLING MIGRATION
2. (a)What was the purpose of the Quota Act (1921) and the National Origins Act (1924)?
(b) How did it favor certain regions for immigration?
(c) How did the laws change with the Immigration Act of 1965?
(d) Since 1965 what changes have been made to U.S. Immigration laws?
3. Identify the three preferential categories for U.S. immigration:
(a)
(b)
(c)
UNAUTHORIZED IMMIGRATION
4. What is the source country for most undocumented immigrants to the U.S.? At the peak what were their
numbers?
6. What was the cause of a decline in number of unauthorized immigrants?
Chapter 3: K.I. #4 7(a) How many unauthorized immigrants are children?
(b) How else do unauthorized immigrants add to the population of the U.S.?
(c) How has duration of residency changed over time with unauthorized immigrants?
(d) How much of the U.S. labor force is made up of unauthorized immigrants?
(e) Where can most unauthorized immigrants be found in the U.S.?
8. How does Mexico assess the plight of unauthorized immigrants?
ATTITUDES TOWARD IMMIGRANTS
9. Complete the following chart from your reading on Ravenstein’s migration theories
CHARACTERISTICS of MIGRANTS
WHO? WHERE/DISTANCE? WHY?
In the past Contemporary trends
In the past and ongoing Current trends
In the past and ongoing Current trends
Gender
Family
Structure
Age
and
Education
Chapter 3: K.I. #4 10. Complete the chart:
European Immigration
What were some of the causes of immigration to the U.S.?
What were some of the effects of European immigration on the U.S. and the rest of the world?
11. How does the United States and Europe compare in their attitudes towards immigrants