Chapter 3

Chapter 3

1. Where do people migrate?

   • People migrate according to Pull factors, although certain cities have become islands of development, in an underdeveloped areas, where economic growth comes from trade with wealthy countries
     • USSR tried to assimilate all citizens to Russian, called Rusification
       • Some countries have visa authorized "guest workers" who migrate into other countries strictly for work
         • UNHCR has defined three groups of forced political migrants Refugee has been forced to migrate to avoid threats to their life, and they cannot return for fear of persecution IDP- similar to refugee, but has not left the nation where they are in danger (Syria has many IDPs) An asylum seeker is someone who has migrated to another country in seek of refugee status.
   • The governments of these nations are trying to push people (not force) to fill positions to produce goods in an area

2. What is migration?

   • Cyclic movement: Movement that is repeated regularly, observing cyclic movement determines borders of activity spaces
     • Nomadism is cyclic
   • Periodic movement: Movement that depends on the timing of the year or seasons
     • Transhumance, or the movment of herds seasonally, is periodic
   • Migration: A permenent relocation of a person or houseold outside the community
     • emigration vs immigration, immigration is in, emigration is out
     • International is outside the country, Intranational is within

3. How do governments affect migration?

   • Governments can change who can immigrate by number and by origin

4. Why do people migrate?

   • Voluntary migration is migration affected by push and pull, and forced is influenced by political opression
   • Summary of all the seprate push and pull factors can be categorized into Politics, Environmental, and Economic. These can be assigned to every push and pull factor of voluntary migration
     • Immigrants come In, while Emigrants Exit

5. Learning Objectives:

   • Principal sources of immigrants during 3 main eras
     • Colonial settlements in 17th and 18th centuries Mass European immigration in late 19th and early 20th centuries Asian and Latin immigration late 20th and early 21st. Each had their own set of push factors, and some pull, although the first era was mostly push.
   • Interregional migration Russia, Canada
     • Russia and Canada both have polar climates, and are trying to settle these areas
   • Int. Nat. vs Internal migration
     • In internal migration, countries can try to make one place more attractive (pull factor), but most do not make people move into one spot. In international, govs. can limit the nuber of people in
   • Interregional migration Canada, China, Brazil
     • In China, and Brazil, the trend is to urbanize, and move into cities, although the governments are trying to move people inland. In Canada,
   • History of interregional migration US

6. Country Facts: 1) Bangladesh is taking in most of the Rhodingan refugees from Myanmar. 2) Despite the fact that Myanmar forces refugees into Bangladesh, the countries are cordial, with that being the only negative.