12-11-18

Today in class we took the Migration Unit test and I feel like I did pretty good. I definitely feel like I got some wrong and I was expecting that because this unit was harder than all of the other units I feel. Overall though I feel pretty good about the test and I don't feel like I totally bombed it like I thought I was going to. Hopefully I will get a good grade on this test because my grade right now is kind of low and I am trying to get it back up from a 77% to an 80% at least so that I can have all A's and B's. This is my only C and I don't know how I have a C because this is one of my favorite subjects out of all of them. I did not that good last year and I think that is why I am not doing so good this year. Anyways I feel like I did pretty good on the test and I am hoping it brings my grade back up.

Class Notes 12-10-18

• Immigration concerns in Europe
• Population increase in Europe is fueled by immigration from other regions of the world, a trend disliked by many Europeans
• Biggest fear is that the host country's culture will be lost , because of immigrants:

1. adhere to different regions
2. speak different languages
3. practice different food and other cultural habit

• Hostility to immigrants became a central plank of some political parties in many European countries

1. immigrants blamed for crime, unemployment rate and high welfare cost

• Characteristics of Migrants
• Ravenstein noted
• Most long-distance migrants are male
• Most long-distance migrants are adult individuals rather than families with children
• Most long-distance migrants are young adults seeking work rather than children or elderly people 

Class Post 12/5/18

Today in class we got another packet and highlighted and took notes by ourselves on it all class. I liked this because in most of my classes(not just Human Geo) I get a little bored sometimes and this gives me something to do. This also interest me because I like learning and watching about immigration and the US and Mexico border. I usually like watching stuff about the border patrol agents and how they do their job. Anyways today class was fun and I like this because it is different than what we usually do which is take notes off of a powerpoint. It is fun sometimes but others it is boring and that is why I liked taking notes and highlighting all the notes in the packet. Overall, today I liked class because it was different than usual.

Changing U. S. Immigration Notes

• The US is inhabited overwhelmingly by direct descendants of immigrants
• About 80 million people migrated to the US between 1820 and 2015, including 42 million who were alive in 2015
• The population in the US in 1970 was 3.9 million including 950,000 who had immigrated to one of the colonies
• One of the main places where immigrants come from is Europe with 62% and of those, 45-50% came from the lands comprising the modern day United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland
• The other is Sub-Saharan Africa at the time of independence there were 360,000 people in the US, 38% immigrants. Another 250,000 in the next century
• Most of the Africans were forced to migrate to the US as slaves, whereas most Europeans were voluntary migrants
• Between 1820 and 1920, approximately 32,000,000 people immigrated to the US. Nearly 90% of them from Europe
• Europeans migrated for an opportunity in life
• Annual migration in 1840-1850 from Ireland and Germany went from 20,000 to more than 200,000 
• Three-Fourths of all US immigrants at that time came from Ireland or Germany
• Emigration from Ireland and Germany resumed following a temporary decline during the US civil war in 1870
• Immigration from Scandinavia increased to 500,000 per year to the US in 1880
• Annual immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe reached 1,000,000 or two-thirds of all immigrants during this time
• Among European countries Germany has sent the largest number of immigrants to the US: 7.2 million, then Italy: 5.4 million, then the United Kingdom: 5.3 million, then Ireland at 4.8 million.

Class Notes 12-3-18

• Trump is making it harder to get into the United States and apply for asylum
• The S.S. St. Louis left Nazi, Germany with 900 jews on board and tried to apply for asylum but was rejected by the U.S.,  Canada, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina
• Non Reforma (not returning)
• 1951 United Nations Meeting
• Persecution

1. Race
2. Nationality
3. Religion
4. Political Beliefs
5. Social Groups
6. Domestic Violence (Under Obama)
7. Gang Violence?
8. Terrorism?
9. Being Gay?