1. Cyclic movement
Journeys that begin at our home base and bring us back to that home base
ACTIVITY SPACE  Movement from and back to the home base
Seasonal Movement – form of cyclic movement
Snowbirds
Nomadism – cyclic movements based on need for food and water

2. PERIODIC MOVEMENT
Involves a return home but a longer period away from the home base
MIGRANT LABOR – those who seek employment in far off places without an intention of remaining in the area of the work
TRANSHUMANCE – pastoral farming that moves according to the seasonal availability of pastures
MILITARY SERVICE

3. MIGRATION Internal Migration International Migration Urbanization
Suburbanization
Counterurbanization
International Migration
Step Migration  Intervening Opportunity
Chain Migration

4. Internal migration and the united states

5. Internal Migration and the United States

6. Localized migration

7. Urbanization
Migration in the period following the Industrial Revolution during which many left rural areas to urban areas in search of jobs.
1800s in MDCs
Modern Times in LDCs

8. Suburbanization
MDCs and modern times  twice as many Americans migrated from the central cities to suburbs each year than migrate from the suburb to the central cities
Issue of lifestyle choices… Which lifestyle choices?

9. Counterurbanization
Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed areas.
Very rapid expansion of suburbs
URBAN SPRAWL
Why is this occurring in modern times?

10. International Migration

11. Step migration
Migration does not occur in long and unbroken routes as they appear on a map.
Occurs in a series of stages due to intervening opportunities (obstacles)

12. INTERVENING OPPORTUNITY
the presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away

13. Chain migration
Pattern of migration that develops when migrants move along and through KINSHIP LINKS
One migrants settles in a place and then writes, calls, or communicates through others to describe this place to family and friends who in turn migrate there