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The Cultural Landscape by Rubenstein Chapter 3: Migration

Key Issue 1: Where Are Migrants Distributed? Pages 78-85 1. Define immigration: Immigration is the international movement of people to a country which they are not native to or where they don’t have citizenship in order to stay as continuing citizens. 2. Define emigration: Emigration is relocation of people leaving one country to live in another. 3. Using Table 3-1, briefly state what one would expect to occur, in terms of migration, in each stage of the demographic transition model, as it is applied to a migration transition. MIGRATION TRANSITION As Applied to the Demographic Transition Model Stage 1

a high movement in search for food

Stage 2 high international emigration movements from rural to urban areas

Stage 3 & 4 high international immigration from cities to suburbs

4. What are Ravenstein’s two laws for distance in relation of migrants? One of Ravensteins’s laws was that most migrants move a short distance and remain in the same country. Another one of Ravenstein’s laws were long distance migrants to other countries head for major centers of economic activity. 5. Migration may be classified as either international or internal. What is the difference? International migration is the moving from one country to another. Internal migration is the movement within one place. 6. What types of push factors are usually responsible for voluntary migration? The types of push factors that are usually responsible for voluntary migration are environmental, economical, or political. 7. What types of push factors are usually responsible for forced migration (refugees)? The types of push factors that are usually responsible for forced migrations are physical.

The Cultural Landscape by Rubenstein Chapter 3: Migration 8. Define interregional migration: The movement from one region of a country to another permanently 9. Define intraregion migration: The movement within one region of a country permanently 10. Read the section, International Migration Flows on page 80, and then make 5 summary statements regarding global migration patterns. ● The main global migration paths were from Asia to Europe, Asia to the US, and Latin Am. to the US ● The US had the most born residents who were native ● 9% of the world’s pop. are immigrants ● Immigrants moved from LDCs to MDCs ● The highest migration rates were from poor countries to more stable countries 11. Finish this statement: The world’s third most populous country (the U.S.) is inhabited overwhelmingly by… the offspring of immigrants

12. In what stage of the Demographic Transition are most countries that send out immigrants? (Think this through…) Stage 2

13. Annotate the graph below from your reading of pages 84-85. Be sure to label all “peaks” and “valleys” (as indicated by arrows) as to where immigrants came from during that time or why there was a decline in immigration.

14. What are the four countries that sent out the most immigrants from Asia in recent years? The four countries that sent out the most immigrants were China, the Philippines, India, and Vietnam

The Cultural Landscape by Rubenstein Chapter 3: Migration 15. What caused immigration from Latin America to the United States to increase? The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act caused immigration from Latin Am. to the US 16. Although the reasons people leave their countries to immigrate to the U.S. have not changed over time, what has changed here in the U.S.? The patterns of most immigrants have changed. Some immigrants decide not to move to the more common places that most immigrants are found living at....