GEOG101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cultural Assimilation, U.S. Route 3, Ethnic Cleansing
28 Feb 2017
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Migration = permanent relocation: usually long distance, can be international or domestic/internal. Mobility = the capacity to move from one place to another, either permanently or temporarily. Measuring migration gross migration: total # of people that leave and enter a country (province, region: out-migration: the total # of people who leave a country (emigration) In-migration: the total # of people who arrive in a country (immigration) Net migration: the difference (enter minus leave) Mobility and migration is both voluntary and forced. Categorizing migration: push and pull factors, economic, education, escaping hardship, natural disaster, environmental damage, degree of choice (freedom) Push factors: poverty, earth quakes, unemployment, religious and political persecution, famines, drought, war. Pull factors: better living conditions, better salaries, family, government/politics, escape from poverty, safer, education facilities, freedom, greater opportunities. Environmental push factors: environmental migrants - persons who no longer gain a secure livelihood in their traditional homelands because of what are primarily environmental factors of unusual scope.
