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1. What is migration?
It's the movement of people from one place in
the world to another to take up permanent or
semi-permanent residence
Scales of migration:
4. Emigration
It's an act of migration across national
boundaries. It's act of leaving one's native
country with the intent to settle elsewhere.
Push Factors: reasons for emigrating because of a
difficulty. Examples:
War
Poverty
Work
...
5. Immigration
It's the movement of people into a destination
country to which they are not native in order to
settle or reside there.
Pull Factors: reasons for immigration because of
something desirable. Examples:
Nicer climate
Freedom
Working offers
...
6. Laws of migration
E.G. Ravenstein developed a series of migration
'laws' in the 1880s.
7. Impacts of migration
As people move, their culture diffuses along with
them, creating and modifying cultural landscapes.
Diffusion: Certain characteristics such as
cultural traits and ideas spread over space and
through time.
Relocation Diffusion: Ideas, cultural traits,
etc. that move from one place to another and
do not remain in the point of origin.
Expansion Diffusion: Ideas, cultural traits,
etc. that move with people from one place to
another but are not lost at the point of origin
(example: language)
Cultural markers: Structures that reflect the
cultures of those who constructed or occupy
them.