• Key Issues
• Where are migrants distributed
• Where do people migrate within a country
• Why do people migrate
• Why do migrants face obstacles
• Mobility is most generalized term that refers to all types of movement
• Journeying each day to work or school
• weekly visits to shops
• visit relatives
• Shorter and repetitive acts of mobility are refereed to as circulation
• College students moving to a college each fall and returning home each spring
• Migration- A permanent move to a location
• Net migration rate- difference between immigrants and emigrants
• Ravenstien's law is the distance that migrants typycally move.
• Most migrants relocate a short distance in the same country
• Long distance migrant who go to other countries head for cities
• Migration is divided into two categories
• International migration- permanent movement between countries
• Voluntary
• Involuntary
• Internal migration- permanent movement in a country
• Approximately 9% of the world's population are international migrants
• Global pattern reflects migration tendencies from developing to developed countries
• Net out migration- Asia, Latin america, and Africa
• Net migration- North America, Europe, and Oceania
• US has more migrants than any other country, 43 million and gaining 1 million per year.
• The eras of immigration, colonies in 18th century, European immigrants in late 19th and early 20th centuries.
• Asian and Latin America immigrants in late 20th and 21st centuries.