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Topic 2.10 and 2.12 Name: moro7167
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Topic 2.10 Causes of Migration
Migration Permanent or semipermanent relocation of people from one place to another
Voluntary migration Migration made by choice
Push factors Negative circumstances, events, or conditions present where they live that
compels a person to leave
Pull factors Positive conditions and circumstances that migrants choose a destination
based on
Emigrant The person which leaves the country
Emigrate The action of migrating away from somewhere
There are a variety of types of Economic push and pull factors:
push and pull factors and Lacking jobs and economic opportunities, such as when factory
include, but are not limited to: workers in the U.S. Rust Belt states were unemployed, moving to
economic, social, political, southern states as manufactures opened new factories there
environmental, and Social push and pull factors:
demographic push and pull People often migrate due to discrimination and persecution, for
factors. These factors have example, anti-Mormon violence in Illinois and Missouri led to
been shown throughout history, Mormons migrating to the Great Salt Lake area
such as when Mormons Political push and pull factors:
moving to the Great Salt Lake People who oppose the policies of a government, as they face
area after anti-Mormon discrimination, arrest, and persecution. For example, when anti-
violence, or when residents communist Cubans fled to the United States after Fidel Castro’s
resettled after the release of takeover
radioactive material from the Environmental push and pull factors:
Fukushima Nuclear Power People often migrate to escape harm from natural disasters and other
Plant. unfavorable environmental conditions, such as when residents living
near the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant resettled after the power
plant released radioactive material
Demographic push and pull factors:
Overcrowding in Stages 2 and 3 limits economic opportunities of the
people, acting as a push factor, causing people to move to less-
crowded countries (Stage 4 or 5) offering greater economic
opportunities with growing economies and aging populations (this is
called the migration transition model)
Intervening obstacles Barriers that make reaching their desired destination more difficult
Intervening opportunities Opportunities en route that disrupt their original migration plan
Ravenstein’s Laws of Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration:
Migration are the basis of Distance decay: further apart two places are, less likely it is that
which geographers still use people will migrate between those places
today to analyze migration. Migrants travelling long distances usually settle in large urban areas,
They are distance decay, that this idea formed the basis of the gravity model of migration, which
migrations usually settle in assumes that the size and distance between two cities or countries
urban areas after travelling will influence the amount of interactions
long distances, step migration, Step migration: a process in which migrants reach their eventual
Topic 2.10 and 2.12 Name: moro7167
notes Date:
Period:
Questions/Main
Ideas/Vocabulary Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences
Topic 2.10 Causes of Migration
Migration Permanent or semipermanent relocation of people from one place to another
Voluntary migration Migration made by choice
Push factors Negative circumstances, events, or conditions present where they live that
compels a person to leave
Pull factors Positive conditions and circumstances that migrants choose a destination
based on
Emigrant The person which leaves the country
Emigrate The action of migrating away from somewhere
There are a variety of types of Economic push and pull factors:
push and pull factors and Lacking jobs and economic opportunities, such as when factory
include, but are not limited to: workers in the U.S. Rust Belt states were unemployed, moving to
economic, social, political, southern states as manufactures opened new factories there
environmental, and Social push and pull factors:
demographic push and pull People often migrate due to discrimination and persecution, for
factors. These factors have example, anti-Mormon violence in Illinois and Missouri led to
been shown throughout history, Mormons migrating to the Great Salt Lake area
such as when Mormons Political push and pull factors:
moving to the Great Salt Lake People who oppose the policies of a government, as they face
area after anti-Mormon discrimination, arrest, and persecution. For example, when anti-
violence, or when residents communist Cubans fled to the United States after Fidel Castro’s
resettled after the release of takeover
radioactive material from the Environmental push and pull factors:
Fukushima Nuclear Power People often migrate to escape harm from natural disasters and other
Plant. unfavorable environmental conditions, such as when residents living
near the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant resettled after the power
plant released radioactive material
Demographic push and pull factors:
Overcrowding in Stages 2 and 3 limits economic opportunities of the
people, acting as a push factor, causing people to move to less-
crowded countries (Stage 4 or 5) offering greater economic
opportunities with growing economies and aging populations (this is
called the migration transition model)
Intervening obstacles Barriers that make reaching their desired destination more difficult
Intervening opportunities Opportunities en route that disrupt their original migration plan
Ravenstein’s Laws of Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration:
Migration are the basis of Distance decay: further apart two places are, less likely it is that
which geographers still use people will migrate between those places
today to analyze migration. Migrants travelling long distances usually settle in large urban areas,
They are distance decay, that this idea formed the basis of the gravity model of migration, which
migrations usually settle in assumes that the size and distance between two cities or countries
urban areas after travelling will influence the amount of interactions
long distances, step migration, Step migration: a process in which migrants reach their eventual
