Migration images

migration exercise

1. Migration

2. Migration Migration – A change in residence that is intended to be permanent. Little Haiti, Miami, Florida

3. International Migration – Movement across country borders (implying a degree of permanence).

4. Internal Migration - Movement within a single country’s borders (implying a degree of permanence).

5. Why do People Migrate? Key Question:

6. Why do People Migrate? Forced Migration – Human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate. Voluntary Migration – Human migration flows in which the movers respond to perceived opportunity, not force.

7. Key Issue 1, Ch 3 Migration Pg 81

8. Types of Push and Pull Factors Lack of jobs Poverty Lack of basic needs Environment (disasters) Overcrowding Oppression Restrictive norms War Economic issues Push Pull Economic opportunity Higher standard of living Peace Cultural diversity Religious or political tolerance

9. Migration Push and Pull Factors

10. Directions: Walk around the room and read each picture about migration. Then tell which category of migration it fits into your ESPN chart. Also label the type of image it is. See example:

11. Image 1 Year: 1900 Place: Italy A family leaves for America, the “Land of Opportunity.”

12. Directions: Walk around the room and read each picture about migration. Then tell which category of migration it fits into your ESPN chart. Also label the type of image it is. See example: #1, Italian family, Pull, economic opportunity,

13. Image 2 Hurricane Katrina, 2005

14. Image 3 When: 1937 Place: USA, Oklahoma Comment: Lack of water drove many “ O kies” out to new places with the promise of jobs.

15. Image 4 When: 1980 Place: Cuba Mariel Boat Lift Castro suddenly permitted people to leave Cuba. He opened the jails and thousands left for Miami, including Scarface.

16. Image 5 When: 1995 Place: Turkey Comment: Guest Workers arrive in Germany for work.

17. Image 6 When: 1880’s Place: Nebraska Comment: We left big city life to build a new life in the Great Plains of America.

18. Image 7 When: Present Day Where: Brasîlia , Capital of Brazil Comments: Many migrants live in poor quality housing on the city’s edge.

19. Image 8 We have to run from others who want to kill us. We are refugees.

20. Our country is overrun by drugs and gangs. It is not safe and there are no good jobs. Image 9 When: Present Day Place: Cuidad Juarez

21. Migrants will often risk their lives in hopes of economic opportunities that will enable them to send money home (remittances) to their family members who remain behind. Economic Conditions – Image 10

22. In Montserrat, a 1995 volcano made the southern half of the island, including the capital city of Plymouth, uninhabitable. People who remained migrated to the north or to the U.S. Environmental Conditions Image 11

23. East Asia Image 12

24. In late 1800s and early 1900s, Chinese migrated throughout Southeast Asia to work in trade, commerce, and finance. Image 13

25. About 700,000 Jews migrated to then-Palestine between 1900 and 1948. After 1948, when the land was divided into two states (Israel and Palestine), 600,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were pushed out of newly-designated Israeli territories. Image 14