Environmental

Population Migration

POPULATION MIGRATION

Nature of Migration

What makes people migrate?

Push factors

Cause people to leave the places where they live.

What are some examples of push factors?brainstorm...

low wagesshortages of food

overcrowded living conditionspolitical persecution

high crime rateswartime conditions

lack of economic opportunitiesdegradation of agricultural land

the depletion of forests or water

Pull factors

Conditions that attract people to new places?

What are some examples of pull factors?Brainstorm...

high wagesgood educational opportunities

havens from political or religious persecutionhigh standards of living

plentiful resources such as fresh water, forests, wildlife, or agricultural land

When was the last time you took advantage and not for granted your surroundings

Did you know?2 million people migrate and settle

permanently in other countries; millions more migrate, but settle only temporary.

Do you think these numbers are likely to grow or decline in the future? Tell me why?

4 Questions to ask about any migration:

1. Is the migration voluntary or involuntary?

2. Is the migration permanent or temporary?

3. Is the migration legal or illegal

4. Is the migration international or internal?

Maybe you have already experienced migration?

In a sense, are we not all immigrants?

migration takes many forms...

For example, it may be voluntary, permanent, legal and internal

OR

It may be involuntary, temporary, illegal, and international

Voluntary Migration

B/w 1800 and 1914, approximately 70 million people left Europe and migrated, by choice, to Canada, the

United States, Australia, Argentina, and other countries.

We are examples of voluntary migration

Each year since 2000, Canada has welcomed more than 220 000 permanent, international immigrants,

most of whom are voluntary migrants.

Immigrants have become an essential part of Canada.

Involuntary Migration

The movement of people, against their will, to a different location.

Throughout history involuntary migration has occurred and unfortunately, occurs far too often

today.

B/w 1500 and 1810, b/w 11 and 15 million people were forcefully taken out of Africa to be

sold as slaves in the Americas.

Rwandan Civil War

2 causes of Involuntary Migration

Geopolitical

Environmental

GeopoliticalIraq:

About 2 million people have felt so unsafe in Iraq that they have left the country entirely

and become refugees. Look at Fig. 8-4

Another 2 million people have been displaced internally as a result of conflicts among the

country’s three main religious/ethnic groups. Look at Fig. 8-5

Environmental

South of the Sahara desert is the Sahel (desert shore) stretching 4000 km across 15

countries. fig. 8-6

Successive droughts since 1970s, plus overuse of grasslands, forests, and water resources are lowering the water table, degrading soil, and

causing the vegetation to disappear.

Desertification = people who live there are forced to move away.

Legal MigrationCountries accepting immigrants have clear rules that determine who will be accepted or rejected.

The rules that a country chooses reflect that country’s economic and social needs.

What are 5 ways that legal immigrants can come to Canada?

Is this legal? What is their story?

Illegal MigrationMany people in the Near Core and Far Periphery and in many parts of the New Core see the nations of the

Old Core as lands of unlimited opportunity.

1. Illegal entry - sneaking into the target country by land or water.

700 000-850 000 enter US illegally each year50 000 Africans enter southern Europe each year; 1000s more perish when boat proves unseaworthy

Approx. 500 000 from eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union enter western Europe by land each year

2. Violation of a country’s terms of legal entry.example, tourist visa, student visa

Migration Issues

Brain Drain Integrating immigrants in receiving countries

p.122Smuggling of illegal immigrants

Replacement migrationOngoing global refugee crisis p.124

(a refugees account)

The Arab-Israeli Conflict