1. Core-Periphery
Core – refers to richer or economically dominant countries (MDC’s)
Periphery – refers to developing or poorer countries (LCD’s)

2. Refugees, Immigration and Government Policies

3. Global Migration Patterns
The major flows of migration are from less
developed to more developed countries.

4. Hurricane Katrina Migrants
A major natural disaster represents an environmental push factor for forced migration.

5. Economic Opportunities
Islands of Development –
Places within a region or country where foreign investment, jobs, and infrastructure are concentrated.

6. Economic Opportunities (con’t.)
In late 1800s and early 1900s, Chinese migrated throughout Southeast Asia to work in trade, commerce, and finance.

7. Migration of Vietnamese Boat People
Many Vietnamese fled by sea as refugees after the war with the U.S. ended in 1975.
Later boat people were often considered economic migrants.

8. Reconnecting Cultural Groups
About 700,000 Jews migrated to then-Palestine between 1900 and 1948.
After 1948, when the land was divided into two states (Israel and Palestine), 600,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were pushed out of newly-designated Israeli territories.

9. Jerusalem, Israel: Jewish settlements on the West Bank.

10. National Migration Flows
Also known as internal migration
- ex.: US, Russia, Mexico

12. Guest Workers
Guest workers – migrants whom a country allows in to fill a labor need, assuming the workers will go “home” once the labor need subsides.
- have short term work visas
- send remittances to home country

13. Guest Workers in Europe
Guest workers emigrate mainly from Eastern Europe and North Africa to work in the wealthier countries of Western Europe.

14. Turkish Kebab Stand in Germany

15. Refugees
A person who flees across an international boundary because of a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion.

16. Types of Refugees
International refugees– those who have crossed one or more international borders and encamped in a country other than their own
Intra-national refugees– those who have abandoned their homes but not their countries
Both can be Permanent or Temporary

17. How to identify a Refugee
Refugees can be identified by at least three characteristics, individual or aggregate
Most refugees move without any more tangible property than they can carry or transport with them
Most refugees make their first "step" on foot, by bicycle, wagon, or open boat
Refugees move without the official documents that accompany channeled migrations

18. Regions of Dislocation
What regions generate the most refugees?
Sub-Saharan Africa
North Africa and Southwest Asia
South Asia
Southeast Asia
Europe

19. Perspective Currently 8.4 million refugees; lowest since 1980, why?
World's refugee population is growing much faster than the total population
Refugee movements often happen suddenly and can involve millions in a matter of weeks
The price of mushrooming global population, political and ethnic strife, and environmental deterioration is human dislocation

20. Governments Place Legal Restrictions on Migration
Immigration laws – laws that restrict or allow migration of certain groups into a country.
Quotas limit the number of migrants from each region into a country.
A country uses selective immigration to bar people with certain backgrounds from entering.

21. The Sudan, Darfur –
Fighting in the Darfur region of the Sudan has generated thousands of refugees. In eastern Chad, the Iridimi refugee camp is home to almost 15,000 refugees from the Darfur province, including the women in this photo.