- Where are migrants distributed?
- Where to do people migrate within a country?
- Why do people migrate?
- Why do migrants face obstacles?
-Mobility- most generalized term that refers to all types of movement.
- circulation- short- term and repetitive acts of mobility.
-migration- a permanent move to a new location
- Net Migration
-Ravenstein's "law" for the distance that migrants typically move.
- most migrants relocate a short distance and remain in the same country
- long-distance migrants to other countries head for major centers of economic activity
- Migration can be divided into two categories
- International Migration- permanent move from one country to another -voluntary -forced
- Internal Migration- permanent move in the same country -interregional - innerregional
- Approximately nine percent of the world's people are international migrants
- Global pattern reflects migration tendencies from developing countries to developed countries
- Net Out-migration
-Asia, Latin America, and Africa
- Net In-migration
- North America, Europe, and Oceania
-U.S. has more foreign-born residents than any other country: approximately forty- three million as 2010-- growing by one million
- three main eras of immigration in the U.S.
- Colonial settlements in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
-Mass European immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Asian and Latin American integration in the late twentieth and twenty- first centuries
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