1. Ch 3. KI 3 Why do people migrate?
Push-Pull Factors and Forced Political Relocation

2. Types of Voluntary Migration
Step Migration
A series of shorter less extreme migrations from a persons place of origin to a final destination
Intervening opportunity – pull factors at one of the steps that encourages the migrant to settle.
Chain Migration
A series of migrations within a family or defined group of people.
Begins with one family member who sends money to bring other members to the new location.

3. Why do people migrate?
People decide to migrate because of a combination of two factors.
Push factors induce people to move out of their present location.
Pull factors induce people to move into a new location.
Three major types of push and pull factors
Political
Environmental
Economic

4. Distance Decay Comes into play with pull factors of migration
Migrants likely to have more complete perceptions of nearer places than of farther ones.
Leads many migrants to move to a locale closer to home than they originally contemplated.

5. Intervening Obstacles
Hinder migration
Historically, environmental
Mountain, Oceans, distance, etc.
Modern, political
Proper documentation to leave and/or enter countries

6. Economic Migration Push factor: migrate away from places with few jobs
Most people migrate for economic reasons.
Push factor: migrate away from places with few jobs
Pull factor: migrate to places where jobs seem to be available
U.S. and Canada have been prominent destinations for economic migrants.
Historically individuals migrated from Europe.
More recently Latin America and Asia are primary senders.

7. Environmental Migration
Environmental factors can prompt migration from hazardous environments or pull migrants to attractive regions.
Environmental Pull Factors
Mountains
Seasides
Warm Climates
Environmental Push Factors
Water: most common environmental threat
Flood
Drought

8. Forced Displacement - Refugees
United Nations High Commissions for Refugees recognizes three groups of forced political migrants.
A refugee has been forced to migrate to avoid a potential threat to his or her life, and he or she cannot return for fear of persecution.
An internally displaced person (IDP) is similar to a refugee, but he or she has not migrated across an international border.
An asylum seeker is someone who has migrated to another country in hope of being recognized as a refugee.
The Current State of UNHCR

9. Where Are Refugees From? The Refugee Project

10. The Lost Boys of Sudan Part 1 & Part 2
Timeline the experiences of the Lost Boys. Include the reasons for their moves, the lessons learned, and other information that impacted the life of these refugees
Part 1 & Part 2

11. Mapping the Migration
Dinka homelands in southern Sudan to refugee camps in western Ethiopia
To Kakuma refugee camp in northwestern Kenya
Kakuma, Kenya (NW Kenya) to Nairobi, Kenya
Nairobi, Kenya to Brussels, Belgium
Brussels, Belgium to New York City

12. The Gravity Model & Distance Decay