MigrationChapter 3, Section 2

Migration

• Migration—People’s movement from one place or region to another.

• Immigrants—people who move into one country from another.

Why do people migrate?

Pull:-Economic opportunities-More political/religious freedom

Push:-Warfare-Famine or drought-Lack of freedom

Push/Pull Theory

2 Types of Migration

• Two types of migration:• Voluntary (push/pull factors)• Involuntary (push factors)

Example #1 MEXICO

I came to the United States when I was sixteen years old. I decided to come to look for abetter life, which, for me, meant earning more money to send to my dad and mom so that mysiblings could have better food, shoes, and clothes. My parents didn’t want me to go becausethey knew they would miss me, but because of the economic situation they accepted thatalthough I was small, I would come to fight and to risk everything to arrive in this country. Icame to the United States alone.

-Francisco, Green Bay

Example #2

“The anti-Jewish riots in Kishinev, Bessarabia are worse than the censor will permit to publish. There was a well laid-out plan for the general massacre of Jews on the day following the Orthodox Easter. The mob was led by priests, and the general cry, ‘Kill the Jews’, was taken up all over the city. The Jews were taken wholly unaware and were slaughtered like sheep. The dead numbered 120 and the injured about 500. The scenes of horror attending this massacre are beyond description. Babies were literally torn to pieces by the frenzied and bloodthirsty mob. The local police made no attempt to check the reign of terror. At sunset the streets were piled with corpses and wounded. Those who could make their escape fled in terror, and the city is now practically deserted of Jews.”

New York Times, 1903 RUSSIAN JEWS

“There is no hope for Israel in Russia. The salvation of the downtrodden people lies in other parts, in a land beyond the seas, which knows no distinction of race or faith, which is a mother to Jew and Gentile alike. In the great republic is our redemption from the brutalities and ignominies to which we are subjected in this our birthplace. In America we shall find rest; the stars and stripes will wave over the true home of our people. To America, brethren! To America!”

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Example #3

“One day, when all our people were gone out to their works as usual, and only I and my dear sister were left to mind the house, two men and a woman got over our walls and in a moment seized us both, and, without giving us time to cry out, or make resistance, they stopped our mouths, and ran off with us into the nearest wood. Here they tied our hands, and continued to carry us as far as they could, till night came on, when we reached a small house where the robbers halted for refreshment, and spent the night. We were then unbound, but were unable to take any food; and, being quite overpowered by fatigue and grief, our only relief was some sleep.”

Olaudah Equiano

AFRICANS

Example #4

After the CIA trained a secret guerilla army of Hmong soldiers tofight North Vietnamese troops, the Hmong were forced out ofseclusion and into refugee camps. Since the mid-1970s, theypoured into California and other states. Approximately 32,000Hmong live in Fresno County, according to census figures, one oflargest concentrations of the 260,000 Hmong in the U.S.

By GOSIA WOZNIACKA, The Associated PressJune 10, 2012

HMONG

“The Potatoes, as you know, are totally a ruin, this year, there and everywhere. Nothing but sheer famine and death by hunger for millions in Ireland…”

-Thomas Carlyle October 3, 1846

IRISHExample #5

I would prefer the civilized, cultured, Germany to America if it were still in its former orderly condition, but as it has turned out recently, and with the threatening prospect for the future of religion and politics, I prefer America. Here I can live a more quiet, and undisturbed life. One lives in such safety here in the country that you seldom lock your door at night, leaving cattle, wagons, plows, everything, out in the open without having to fear thievery.

-John Kerler, letter written by a German immigrant after settling in Wisconsin (1849)

GERMANS

As long as the settler does not have sufficient meat from domestic animals the hunting grounds keep in provisions. There are so many deer, stags, turkeys, chickens, pheasants, snipe and other game that a good hunter without much exertion provides for the needs of a large family. Throughout the entire United States, hunting and fishing are completely free, and in the unenclosed spaces anyone can hunt how and when he pleases.

-Gottfried Duden, Report of a Journey to the Western States of North America (1829)

Example #6