Geography Exam 1 Part 2
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- Migration
- permanent move to a new location
- Emigration
- Migration from a country.
- Immigration
- migration to a location
- Net migraition
- The difference between the number of immigrants and emigrants
- Push Factors (pressure to move):
- Economic (Bad harvest/no jobs), cultural/political (war/government ideology), environmental (catastrophe/health).
- Pull Factors (Inducement to move):
- Economic (better jobs), cultural/political (freedom), environmental (ammenities).
- refugee
- people forced to migrate from home country and cnnot return for fear of persecution
- Obsticles to migration:
- Historically: Environment Now: Government policies and politics.
- Diaspora
- The people living outside their homeland.
- Demographic and Migration Transitions
- 1-unlikely 2-net outflow of migrants as population explodes 3&4-net inflow of migrants in search of economic opportunity
- Quota act of 1920
- Mostly Eroupeans. Limited the immigrants according to country of origin.
- In ___ legal status was give to anyone living in the USA.
- 1970
- 1965 Quota policy
- Broadened to include Latin Americans and Asian. Limited the immigrants according to hemisphere of origin.
- Today's quota policy
- Global quota