MOVEMENT & MIGRATION HOW AND WHY DO PEOPLE MOVE?

MIGRATION PERMANENT RELOCATION ACROSS LARGE DISTANCES INTERNATIONAL BETWEEN COUNTRIES INTERNAL USUALLY RURAL TO URBAN ALSO TO AREAS OF OPPORTUNITY/LOW COSTS

CHARACTERISTICS OF MIGRATION – LAWS OF MIGRATION ERNST RAVENSTEIN (1876): LAWS OF MIGRATION 1. MOST MIGRANTS MOVE ONLY A SHORT DISTANCE: STEP MIGRATION INTERVENING OBSTACLES INTERVENING OPPORTUNITIES

2. MIGRANTS THAT MOVE GREATER DISTANCES TEND TO GO TO CITIES – WHY? 3. MIGRATION FLOWS PRODUCE COUNTER MIGRATION PEOPLE MOVE OUT AS OTHERS MOVE IN SEQUENT OCCUPANCY 4. FAMILIES ARE LESS LIKELY TO MIGRATE THAN YOUNG ADULTS MOST INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS WERE YOUNG MALES - UP UNTIL 1990’S - NOW FEMALES ARE THE MOST. WHY? ECONOMIC FACTORS ARE THE MAIN CAUSE OF MIGRATION***** CHARACTERISTICS OF MIGRATION – LAWS OF MIGRATION Chain Migration? Transportation?

CATALYSIS OF MIGRATION: PUSH & PULL FACTORS MANY EXIST SUCH AS: ECONOMIC CONDITIONS POLITICAL CIRCUMSTANCES ARMED CONFLICTS CIVIL WAR ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS CULTURE & TRADITION TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES

ON YOUR OWN PAPER, IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF MOVEMENT: PUSH OR PULL. THEN, IDENTIFY THE FACTOR: ECONOMIC, CULTURAL/POLITICAL, OR ENVIRONMENTAL. SCENARIO A AS OIL WEALTH INCREASES IN DUBAI, SRI LANKAN CITIZENS MIGRATE TO DUBAI IN SEARCH OF WORK. THEY OFTEN WORK THE MANUAL LABOR JOBS SUCH AS CONSTRUCTION. SCENARIO B AFSHAN WAS TARGETED AND NEARLY KILLED BY THE TALIBAN FOR SUPPORTING EDUCATION FOR GIRLS. CONFLICT WITHIN AFGHANISTAN IN THE PAST DECADES HAS BEEN INCREASING. AFSHAN’S FAMILY FLED AFGHANISTAN FOR PAKISTAN IN HOPES OF SAFETY AND A PROMISING FUTURE. QUIZ TIME: PUSH & PULL MIGRATION SCENARIOS

SCENARIO C GEMMA’S DAD WORKED AT EXXON IN NIGERIA. HE HEARD SHELL OIL DRILLERS DISCOVERED PETROLEUM IN THE NORTH SEA OFF THE COAST OF NORTHEAST SCOTLAND AND HE APPLIED FOR A JOB WITH SHELL. AFTER SEVERAL INTERVIEWS, GEMMA’S DAD WAS HIRED AND THE WHOLE FAMILY MOVED TO SCOTLAND. SCENARIO D JACOB IS A CHRISTIAN LIVING IN SOUTHERN SUDAN. HE LEFT HIS HOME WITH ONLY THE CLOTHES ON HIS BACK AND FLED TO ETHIOPIA WHICH HE HAS HEARD IS HOME TO A BRANCH OF COPTIC CHRISTIANS. JACOB HOPES TO FIND SAFETY AND ACCEPTANCE IN ETHIOPIA. QUIZ TIME: PUSH & PULL MIGRATION SCENARIOS

SCENARIO E ICHIRO AND AIKA LIVED IN NORTHERN JAPAN BUT THERE HOME WAS DESTROYED AS A RESULT OF THE FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR MELTDOWN IN AS A RESULT, THEY WERE FORCED TO MOVE TO OSAKA IN SOUTHERN JAPAN. SCENARIO F AS MORE EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES JOINED THE EU (EUROPEAN UNION), CROATIANS AND SERBIANS BEGAN TO WORK MANY JOBS IN THE UK PREVIOUSLY HELD BY WESTERN EUROPEANS. THIS HAS LED TO RESENTMENT AND AS A RESULT EASTERN EUROPEANS ARE NOT ACCEPTED INTO WESTERN EUROPEAN SOCIETY.

SCENARIO A PULL FACTOR – ECONOMIC SCENARIO B PUSH FACTOR – POLITICAL/CULTURAL SCENARIO C PULL FACTOR – ECONOMIC

SCENARIO D PULL FACTOR – POLITICAL/CULTURAL SCENARIO E PUSH FACTOR – ENVIRONMENTAL SCENARIO F BOTH!!! PULL FACTOR – ECONOMIC PUSH FACTOR – POLITICAL/CULTURAL