Chapter 3: Key Issue 1

Why Do People Migrate?

1. What are push and pull factors?

2. Complete the table below with specific examples of push and pull factors:

Push Factors Pull Factors

Economic

Cultural

Environmental

3. Define intervening obstacle:

4. Briefly describe the role of each of the following in examining intervening obstacles and migration:a. Physical geography

b. Transportation

c. Political concerns/laws

5. Migration may be classified as either international or internal. What is the difference?

6. What is the difference between interregional and intraregional migration?

7. What types of push factors are usually responsible for the following categories of international migration?

a. Voluntary migration:

b. Forced migration (refugees)

8. Briefly state what one would expect to occur, in terms of migration, in each stage of the demographic transition model as it applies to migration transition.

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MIGRATION TRANSITION: As applied to the demographic transition model

Stage 1 Stage 2 Stages 3 and 4

9. Complete the following table from the reading:

CHARACTERISTICS OF MIGRANTS

Who? Where? Why?

Gen

der

In the past:

Today:

Fam

ily

statu

s

In the past:

Today:

10. Answer the following questions regarding migrants from Mexico who move to the United States.

In what way does migration from Mexico to the U.S. support each of the following geographic models?

a) Migration Transition Model (as adapted from the demographic transition model):

b) Distance-decay function:

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Chapter 3 Key Issue 1

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Please answer the following prompts. In what ways does migration from Mexico to the U.S. benefit…

the Mexican migrants?

Americans?

How does seasonality make this phenomenon as much a concept of human mobility, rather than permanent migration?