1. Migration: Interregional and Intraregional Migration

2. Interregional Migration
Movement within a country
Movement cross-country
Permanent movement to a new region of the same country

3. Transition
Moving within the same country tends to be less traumatic for the migrant because the culture tends to be similar.
*culture meaning language, foods, broadcast, music etc.

4. Migration: West/South

5. Migration of American
American settlement has changed over the last 200+ years.
People used to live on the East coast but have moved westward during the time of western expansion.
In about the 1950’s people then began to move south. It was the introduction of the air-conditioner that prompted the movement.

6. Historical Interregional Migration-West
People would migrate as farmland would dry up or become scarce.
People were following the flow of economic opportunity.
The eventual invention of the steam engine, canal system
of the great lakes.
Eventually this western
centric movement slowed
as there was an immigration
resurgence after the Civil
war.

7. Interregional Migration- South
Rust Belt to Sun Belt
Economic Opportunity
In the South, job growth was more than twice the national average.
African Americans experienced different migration patterns.
In general, slowed down but with baby boom generation retiring the pattern will continue.

8. Interregional Migration
Migration is due to expansion of economic opportunity for the country.
Additionally, Interregional migration occurs because people are moving from rural to urban areas.

9. Sparsely populated rural Brazil

10. Sao Paulo, population 11.25 million

11. Intraregional Migration
Intraregional Migration- movement within a single region
Tends to be movement from cities to suburbs

12. Three Step Intraregional Migration
Rural to Urban
Urban to Suburban
Urban to Rural

13. Rural to Urban
Industrialization brought people from the farm to the cities. (first MDC’s then LDC’s)
Rural-Urban migrants seek economic opportunity.
As agriculture
decreased
people moved into
urban areas for
industrial jobs.

14. Suburbanization Occurs in developed countries.
Not associated with job change
People
are pulled for
the ‘suburban’
lifestyle.
More space,
safety,
schools etc.

15. Urban to Rural Areas
Counterurbanization- migration away from urban areas into rural ones.
Outlying suburban areas.
Again, lifestyle.
Though no one
is really disconnected.
Employed in
small businesses,
services, recreation etc.