Geography

Migration

• Causes of voluntary migration:
• Find a job, better paid job
• Pioneers develop new areas
• Trade & economic expansion
• Territorial expansion
• Better climate
• Social anemities
• Be with friends/familiy
•  Internal migration is within a country e.g. rural/urban, regional
•  External or international is between countries e.g. Negro slaves to
• America (forced) or Mexicans into the US (voluntary)
•  Emigrant: A person who leaves a country to migrate to another.
•  Immigrant: A migrant arriving in a new country.
• Causes of forced migration:
• To avoid religious/political persecution
• Avoid war
• Slavery/prisoners of war
• Racial discrimination
• Famine
• Natural disasters
• Overpopulation