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Migration

Migration. Overarching questions. What forces motivate human exploration? Why do humans explore the unknown? Has human exploration benefitted mankind? Does Exploration create exploitation?. Why do People Migrate?. Push factor – induces people to move out of their present location

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Migration

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  1. Migration

  2. Overarching questions What forces motivate human exploration? Why do humans explore the unknown? Has human exploration benefitted mankind? Does Exploration create exploitation?

  3. Why do People Migrate? • Push factor– induces people to move out of their present location • People feel negatively about current place • Pull factor– induces people to move into a new location • People view another place attractively

  4. Forced Migration – the Atlantic Slave Trade

  5. Push and Pull Factors

  6. Cultural Push and Pull Factors • Cultural factors can be push factors when people forced to emigrate from a country • Two main reasons: slavery and political instability • Slavery– shipped to other countries, especially from Africa to Western Hemisphere • Political Instability • Boundaries of new states can segregate ethnic groups • Wars may force ethnic group to migrate to the other side

  7. Environmental Push and Pull Factors • Pulled toward physically attractive regions and pushed from hazardous ones • Attractive environments include: mountains, seasides, and warm climates • Rocky Mountains and Alps • Southern Spain and southwestern U.S. • Water (too much or too little) is most common adverse physical condition • Floodplain of river subject to flooding

  8. Economic Push and Pull Factors • Most people move for economic reasons • People emigrate from place with few job opportunities and immigrate to places with more job opportunities • United States and Canada prominent destination for European immigrants in the nineteenth century and Asia and Latin America today

  9. Describe what you see as USA’s Attitude towards immigration

  10. Immigration from Latin America

  11. Immigration from Latin America • Annual immigration increased from 60,000 in 1950’s to over 400,000 since 2000 • Mexico has passed Germany as country to send most immigrants to the U.S. • People pushed by poor conditions at home and pulled by economic opportunity and social advancement in the United States • Most immigrants from Stage 2 countries

  12. Destination of Immigrants Within the United States • Recent immigrants not distributed evenly • More than half in four states • 1/4 in California and 1/4 in New York, Florida, and Texas • Undocumented immigrants show similar pattern • Isolated in several states • 1/4 in California, 1/4 in New York, Arizona, Illinois, Georgia, and New Jersey; remaining 1/4 in other 42 states • Proximity influences decisions for many • Mexicans prefer California or Texas • Cubans prefer Florida

  13. U.S. Attitudes Toward Immigrants • Americans always had some level of suspicion, but tolerated during 19th century • Helped settle the frontier – made productive farms • Opposition to immigration intensified when immigrants from southern and eastern Europe arrived • 1911 study called them racially inferior • Recently several states have voted to deny undocumented immigrants access to most public services (schools, day-care, health clinics) • Unwilling to help needy immigrants

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