GEOG 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ural Mountains, North American English, Cultural Geography
18 Apr 2017
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Forced: migrant has been compelled to move, generally by slavery, imprisonment, and war. Internal: permanent move within same country, whether voluntary or forced. Chain: migrants convince others from home to come to the new area, and those people do the same, forming a chain of migrants between the two places; voluntary, internal or international. Push factors: induce people to leave their present location; bad things at home. Pull factors: induce people to come to a new location; good things elsewhere. Economic pushes: unemployment, low wages, lack of private land. Economic pulls: jobs, high wages, good education, socioeconomic improvement. Environmental pulls: calm or beautiful conditions (mountains, coasts, warmth) Wwii greatly increases migration: mostly north and also west to los angeles, oakland, san francisco, whites from upper south to north for industrial jobs after extreme poverty, continued to the 1970s. Sunbelt migration: since 1970s, back to south for warmer winters, more tolerant now.
