hum geo migration unit 2 Flashcards
Activity space
Activity space - daily routine area
but technology has expanded activity space
U.S is the most mobile country.
Movement
spatial interaction, diffusion, distribution
types of movement
cyclic, peridoic, migration
cyclic movement
cyclic movement is a movement that has a closed route
- home to work and back home
- sunbelt states - snow birds ( 3 major sunbelt states : Texas Florida, and California
- Nomadism : move to over a territory, repeated movement
- daily classes are considered cyclic movement
peridiodic moveeemtn
move to ways from home for a long period of time
Example :
Migrant labor : work across borders
Transhumance : moving livestock to pastures based on season
Military service
College
Migration
long term relocation outside of our original community meant to be permanent.
mostly for economic reasons
immigration:
immigration: go into a country - pull factors : employment opportunities, freedoms, land, amenities
emigration
emigration : exit a country - push factors (ESPEN) : unemployment, poverty, war, famine, drug cartels
voluntary migration
migration made by choice, usslly due to enomoic oppertutines
Forced migration/ involentary migration
forced migration
slave trade, Natie Americans when they were forced to Oklahoma
Ravinstines laws of migration
1)most migrants go only short distances - True
2)people will travel farther if they are wanting to go to a big city - True that’s where jobs are
3)most migration proceeds step by step - Intervening opportunities and obstacles: border and environmental , step migration
4)most migration is rural to urban - True Jobs
5)eac migration flow produces a counterflow - chinese coming in and then the value of property goes down, True, Chain migration - Kinship Links follows your foot step
6)most migrant are adults, less likely to be families - not true
7)most international migrants are young males - not true
2 types of internal migration
intereginal
intrareginal
intraregional migration
withn the same region : rural to urban, urban to subburabn- lifestyle changes: kids, metropolitan and nonmetropolitan: increased technology allows people to work out die of the city.
interreginal migration
between crossing, across regions : people moving from north to south, NY to TX
External Migration
immigration- inot a country and emmigration - leaving a country
net in migration
North America, Euerope, Ociena
net out migration
most people comming out
Asia, LAtin America, Africa
1st U.S immigration wave
Colonial America: 1607-1840
European settlement- 2 million, mostly British
African slaves – 800, 000
2nd U.S immigration wave
19th century (1840-1910)
3 European Peaks
1840s and 1850s:
-Northern and Western Europe
1880s:
-Northern and Western Europe
1900-1910:
-Southern and Eastern Europe
3rd U.S immigration wave
Second-half of 20th century (1950-2008)
Less developed regions
Latin America:
Asia:
Brain Drain:
large-scale emigration by talented people out of the periphery
Time-Contract workers:
South and East Asian workers to Southeast Asia
Guest Workers:
To Europe from Middle East and North Africa
International refugees:
those who have crossed borders
Intranational refugees:
those eho have abandoded their homes but bot thier homeland
regions of dilocatiion
sub saharen africa, North Africa, South west Asia, South Aisa, SOutheast Asia, Europe, South America
3 chrecteris to identify regugees
- move without any property
- make firt step by foot cyclewagon boat etc
- move without offical documents
