Human Geo 3.1 Questions

Question 1

Why do geographers study migration/why is it important? (2 reasons)

Answer 1

• Migration is important in explaining changes in population in various places and regions
• When people migrate, they take with them to their new home cultural values and economic practices.

Question 2

What are some examples of circulation?

Answer 2

• Journeying every weekday from their homes to places of work or education
  -Journeying once a week to shops, places of worship, or recreation areas.

Question 3

What are 2 examples of seasonal mobility?

Answer 3

1. College students move to a residence hall each fall and reutn home the following spring
2. Some elderly people move to warmer climates in winter, then back home in the summer.

Question 4

Why does migration occur much less frequently than mobility?

Answer 4

Because it produces profound changes for individuals and entire cultures. A permanent move to a new location disrupts traditional cultural ties and economic patterns in one region.

Question 5

What makes relocation diffusion more feasible than in the past?

Answer 5

The changing scale generated by modern transportation systems. Additionally, thanks to modern communications systems, relocation diffusion is no longer essential for transmittal of ideas from one place to another.

Question 6

Culture and economy can diffuse rapidly around the world through forms of _________ __________

Answer 6

Expansion diffusion.

Question 7

Most people migrate in search of what 3 objectives:

Answer 7

1. Economic opportunity
2. Cultural freedom
3. Environmental comfort

Question 8

What 3 groups can Ravensteins principles be organized into?

Answer 8

1. The distance that migrants typically move
2. The reasons why migrants move
3. The characteristics of migrants

Question 9

According to the migration transition, international migration is primarily a phenomenon of countries in what stage of the DTM?

Answer 9

Stage 2. Internal migration is more important in stages 3 and 4.

Question 10

At a global scale, what are the 3 largest flows of migrants?

Answer 10

1. From Latin America to North America
2. From Asia to Europe
3. From Asia to North America

Question 11

What regions have net out-migration and what regions have net in-migration?

Answer 11

Net out-migration: Asia, Latin America, and Africa
Net in-migration: North America, Europe, and South Pacific.

Question 12

Is there a larger number of internal migrants or international migrants?

Answer 12

Internal migrants are much more numerous than international migrants.

Question 13

Why do people find migration within a country less traumatic than international migration?

Answer 13

Because they find familiar language, foods, broadcasts, literature, music, and other social customs after they move.

Question 14

If the number of immigrants exceeds the number of emigrants, what is the net migration?

Answer 14

The region has net in-migration.

Question 15

In 2017, where did the largest numbers of migrants come from? Where did the largest number of migrants go to?

Answer 15

Came from Asia. Went to Asia or Europe.

Question 16

Which countries have the most foreign-born residents?

Answer 16

The US has the most, at 45 billion as of 2018, a number that is growing annually by about 1 million. Germany, Russia, and Saudia Arabia are distant seconds.

Question 17

Where are the highest in-migration rates of all in?

Answer 17

Petroleum-exporting countries of Southwest Asia, which attract immigrants primarily from poorer countries in Asia to perform many of the dirty and dangerous functions in the oil fields and construction industry.

Question 18

What is the largest flow of migrants between pairs of countries between 1990 and 2017?

Answer 18

From Mexico to the United States.

Question 19

What is the general pattern of movement of migrants in Europe?

Answer 19

From south and east to north and west.

Question 20

In Europe, what is the country of origin for the largest number of emigrants?

Answer 20

Russia (6 million), although overall it has net in-migration. Other leading sources include Ukrain, Kazakhstan, Poland, Morrocco, Romania and Turkey.

Question 21

What are the US’s 3 main eras of immigration?

Answer 21

1. Colonial settlement: 17th and 18th centuries
2. Mass European Immigration: late 19th and early 20th centuries.
3. Asian and Latin American immigration in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Question 22

At independence, where did immigration to the American colonies and the newly United States come from? (2 places)

Answer 22

1. Europe (colonies were established by British immigrants along the Atlantic Coast).
2. Sub-Saharan Africa (slave trade: Africans forced to migrate to Western Hemisphere to work on plantations).

Question 23

When did migration from Europe to the US peak during the 19th and early 20th centuries?

Answer 23

1. 1840s and 1850s: Ireland and Germany (desperate economic factors, political unrest)
2. 1870s: Ireland and Germany (after a decline during the US civil war)
3. 1880s: Scandinavia (Industrial Revolution triggered rapid population increase)
4. 1905-1914: Southern and Eastern Europe (Industrial Revolution diffused to these parts, and Jews fleed religious persecution)

Question 24

Why did immigration to the US drop sharply in the 1930s and 1940s?

Answer 24

Great Depression and WWII.

Question 25

More than 3/4 of recent US immigrants have emigrated from what 2 regions?

Answer 25

1. Latin America
2. Asia

Question 26

hat did the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act do?

Answer 26

It issued visas to several hundred thousand people who had entered the US in previous years without legal documents. As a result of this, an unusally large numebr of immigrants from Mexico & other Latin American countries came to the US.