Transcript Immigration regional - Erie City School District

Why Do People Migrate Within a
Country?
C3K4
Objectives
• Migration between regions within the United
States.
• Migration between regions in other countries.
• Migration within one region.
Migration Between Regions Within the
United States
• Colonial Settlement:
population concentration
along Atlantic coast. Why?
• Intervening obstacles
(mountains, thick forests,
and hostile Indians)
• Early Settlement in the
Interior: transportation
improvement opened up
settlement. How?
• Erie Canal linked NYC to
Great Lakes. Allowed
farmers to move west.
Migration
Between Regions
Within the United
States
Migration Between Regions Within the
United States
• Migration to California:
Gold Rush & unsuitable
farm land in the great
plains rapidly sped the
way for the population
center to shift west.
Migration Between Regions Within the
United States
• Settlement of the Great
Plains: rate slowed
westward b/c European
migration
• Land grants and
technological
improvements to farm
Great Plains
Migration Between
Regions Within the
United States
• Recent growth of the
South: pop moved 250
miles west (1940 to
2000). Moved
southward 75 mi. Why?
• Jobs and climate (area
known = Sunbelt)
Migration Between Regions in Other
Countries
• Russia: built mines and
factories near raw
materials.
• Far North: 45% of land
(< 2% pop) solution?
• Forced migration
• Collapse of USSR: ended
government sponsored
“optimal locations” for
factories.
Brazil
• New Capital: Brazil
moved capital 600 miles
to the interior. Why?
Indonesia
• Indonesia: incentives to
move from Java (2/3
pop) to other islands.
• One-way air ticket, 5
acres, building material,
seeds, and pesticides,
and a year worth of
rice.
Europe
• Follow the $$$: former
colonies and poorer
European countries
migrated North and West.
India
• Gov. Permits: limit
migration within to
protect local economies
and ethnic identity.
Migration Within
One Region
• Urbanization Trend
• MDC: ¾ urban
population
• LDC: since 1982 same
trend is happening
(23% to 42% in Asia)
Migration from urban to Suburban
Areas
• MDC: intraregional
migration from cities to
suburbs (2:1 ratio)
• Pull factor: NOT JOBS but
WHAT?
• Bigger, access, & more
privacy
Migration from Urban to Rural Areas
• Counterurbanization:
MDC experienced more
people moving to rural
than moving to urban.
WHY?
• Rat race versus the farm
• What makes it possible?
• Modern
communications &
transportation
Gentrification: the restoration of run-down urban
areas by the middle class (resulting in the
displacement of low-income residents).