GEOG 1F90 Lecture 7: GEOG1F90 Migration.docx
25 May 2015
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Geog1f90 migration: what is migration, human movement (one of the 5 themes of the course, movement changes the places they leave, and the places they settle at, we"re seeing globalization and increased integration and connectivity challenges a state to authority, mobility and movement across various scales, forms of movement: Many people flee internal domestic conflict: defined as a person who has a well founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion, why do people migrate, voluntary: occurs where migrants make a series of choices that resulted in their movement, forced: occurs when individuals are forced to migrate rather than choosing to migrate (slave trade, distinction isn"t always clear, diaspora describes the forceful or voluntary dispersal of the people form their homeland (jews, us mexican border, they are forced to go back to mexico if they"re illegally there, reasons for migration.
