GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Immigration, Chain Migration, Distance Decay
15 Dec 2017
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Most international migration is from developing countries to developed countries. The united states is the leading destination for international migrants. Migration is a permanent move to a new location. It is a form of relocation diffusion(defined in chapter 1) Immigration (in migration): is migration to a location. The difference between the number of immigrants and the number of emigrants is the (net migration) Geo has no comprehensive theory of migration. It is consistent with the distance decay principle. The farther away a place is located the less likely that people will migrate to it. Thus international migrants are much less numerous than internal migrants. Leading source of international migrants in the world today are from asia to north america and. As well as from latin america to north america. Immigrants cluster in communities where people from the same country previously settled.
