- Where are migrants distributed?
- Where do people migrate within a country?
- Why do people migrate?
- Why do migrants face obstacles?
- Mobility is the most generalized term that refers to all types of movement
- Short-Term and repetitive acts of mobility and referred as circulation
- A permanent move to a new location constitutes migration
- Difference between the number of immigrants and emigrants is net migration
- Ravenstein's "laws" for the distance that migrants typically move
- Most migrants relocate a short distance and remain within the same country
- Long-Distance migrants to other countries head for cities
- Migration can be divided into two categories
- International Migration- Permanent move from one country to another
- Voluntary
- Forced
2. Internal Migration-permanent move within the same country
- Interregional
- Intraregional
- Approximately 9% of the world people are international migrants
- Global pattern reflects migration tendencies from developing countries to developed countries
- Net-Out Migration
- Asia, Latin America nd Africa
- Net-In Migration
- North America, Oceana, and Europe
- U.S. has more foreign-born residents than any other country: approximately 43,000,00 as of 2010- growing by 1,000,000 annually
- 3 main eras of immigration in the UU.S.
- Colonial settlement in 17th and 18th countries
- Mass European immigration in the late 19th and 20th centuries
- Asian and Latin American integration in the late 20th and early 21st centuries
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