GEOG101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Anthropocene, Thomas Robert Malthus, Demographic Transition
15 Jun 2015
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May be implemented for economic, humanitarian or political reasons. May be encouraged with honors or financial incentives. May be discouraged or enforced with financial penalties. Definition: a particular kind of mobility that involves a spatial movement of residence. Two general scales at which migration occurs. Occurs when population runs out of food. Relocation without coercion or compulsion of a government or powerful group. Ex: 40 million in the united states. People may still have the choice to move, but feel pressured to do so because political decision have made living in current location very difficult. The forceful relocation of populations against their will. Ex: africans forced to move to us plantations, slave trade between east africa and arabian peninsula. Occurs in less developed and developed countries. The reasons for migration stem from the belief that the new location is considered to be more favorable than the current location. Push factors: motivates one to leave their place of origin.
