1. Population Geography Migration
Objective: today, we will look at why people move to and from places

2. Vocabulary Migration - A permanent move to a new location
Immigration – to enter and live in a new country
Emigration – to leave one’s home to live in another place

3. Questions Why do people migrate?
How have social, economic, political, and environmental factors influenced migration?

4. Internal Migration
Moving within the country

5. External Migration
Moving outside the country

6. Forced
Being forced to move

7. Voluntary
Moving because YOU want to.

8. Push and Pull Factors
People decide to migrate because of push and pull factors. A push factor induces people to leave a location. A pull factor induces people to move to a new location.

9. T-Chart
Make a T-Chart in your spiral
PUSH PULL

10. Push Factor - Overpopulation
People often leave areas that are heavily populated.

11. Push Factor - Religious Persecution
When people cannot worship as they wish they migrate. The pilgrims that landed at Plymouth were fleeing religious persecution.

12. Push Factor - Lack of Jobs
The vast majority of people migrating from Latin America, Africa, and Asia are migrating because there are no jobs.

13. Net migration rates: Countries in blue have a positive
migration rate and countries in orange have a negative.

15. Push Factor - Agricultural Decline
Agricultural decline means a person cannot grow as much food on the same amount of land as they once could. Over time land becomes less fertile and people have to move.

16. Push Factor - Conflict
People flee from wars. These people are known as refugees. There are many refugee camps in Africa due to a long history of civil war in many countries.

17. Push Factor - Political Persecution
Political persecution means that people are punished when they disagree with the government. This happens most in dictatorships or communist countries. People have migrated from China and Cuba because of political persecution.

18. Push Factor - Natural Hazards
Droughts
Floods
Tsunamis
Earthquakes
Volcanoes

19. Push Factor - Limits on Freedom
Communist countries often limit personal freedom. People cannot listen to certain music, watch certain television shows, or even say things bad about the government.

20. Push Factor - Environmental Degradation
Deforestation
Desertification - An expansion of arid conditions into non-arid regions. This is a problem in the Sahel, a region near the Sahara Desert in North Africa.

23. Click here to see desertification video from youtube.

24. Pull Factors Religious Freedom Economic Opportunity Land Availability
Political Freedom
Ethnic and Family Ties
Arable Land

25. Impact of Immigration Language Religion and Religious Freedom
Customs/Traditions
Cultural Landscape

26. Tell whether the migration is external or internal AND whether the person is being pull or pushed from their location
Johnny leaves New York to live in Boston, MA for a new Job.
Leslie leaves New Orleans because Katrina destroyed her home. She now lives in Florida.
Ariaya moves from the United States to Spain to study the language.
Maria leaves Guatemala to flee from the wars and moves to Mexico.
Bear Claw the Great was told to leave his tribe in Florida and had to relocate to Oklahoma.