why do people migrate within a country?
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Why Do People Migrate Within a Country?. C3K4. Objectives. Migration between regions within the United States. Migration between regions in other countries. Migration within one region. Migration Between Regions Within the United States. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Why Do People Migrate Within a Country?
C3K4
Objectives
• Migration between regions within the United States.
• Migration between regions in other countries.• Migration within one region.
Migration Between Regions Within the United States
• Colonial Settlement: population concentration along Atlantic coast. Why?
• Intervening obstacles (mountains, thick forests, and hostile Indians)
Migration Between Regions Within the
United States• Early Settlement in the
Interior: transportation improvement opened up settlement. How?
• Erie Canal linked NYC to Great Lakes. Allowed farmers to move west.
Migration Between Regions Within the United States
• Migration to California: Gold Rush & unsuitable farm land in the great plains rapidly sped the way for the population center to shift west.
Migration Between Regions Within the United States
• Settlement of the Great Plains: rate slowed westward b/c European migration
• Land grants and technological improvements to farm Great Plains
Migration Between Regions Within the
United States
• Recent growth of the South: pop moved 250 miles west (1940 to 2000). Moved southward 75 mi. Why?
• Jobs and climate (area known = Sunbelt)
Migration Between Regions in Other Countries
• Russia: built mines and factories near raw materials.
• Far North: 45% of land (< 2% pop) solution?
• Forced migration• Collapse of USSR: ended
government sponsored “optimal locations” for factories.
Brazil
• New Capital: Brazil moved capital 600 miles to the interior. Why?
Indonesia
• Indonesia: incentives to move from Java (2/3 pop) to other islands.
• One-way air ticket, 5 acres, building material, seeds, and pesticides, and a year worth of rice.
Europe
• Follow the $$$: former colonies and poorer European countries migrated North and West.
India
• Gov. Permits: limit migration within to protect local economies and ethnic identity.
Migration Within One Region
• Urbanization Trend• MDC: ¾ urban
population• LDC: since 1982 same
trend is happening (23% to 42% in Asia)
Migration from urban to Suburban Areas
• MDC: intraregional migration from cities to suburbs (2:1 ratio)
• Pull factor: NOT JOBS but WHAT?
• Bigger, access, & more privacy
Migration from Urban to Rural Areas
• Counterurbanization: MDC experienced more people moving to rural than moving to urban. WHY?
• Rat race versus the farm• What makes it possible?• Modern
communications & transportation
Gentrification: the restoration of run-down urban areas by the middle class (resulting in the displacement of low-income residents).