GEO 231 Lecture 7: International Migration
16 Nov 2017
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About 3. 5% are immigrants, living in a country other than their country of birth. Of the (cid:885). 5%, (cid:884)% live inn mdc"s, and (cid:883). 5% lives in the ldc"s. Migration id defined as a form of relocation of people, involving permanent move to a new place. People move for various reasons: some are voluntary, others are forced (involuntary, displaced, seeking asylum) The long-standing theoretical framework that guides research on population migration is the push-pull factor thesis. Push and pull factors can be political, economic, cultural, and environmentally based. Migrants move to countries where economic returns to their human capital are higher than in their home country. Except refugees who move for political protection. In the past, this happened to the slaves from africa. The owners of the plantations in the u. s forcefully look millions of blacks from africa and shipped them to the u. s to work in the plantations.
