Think About 1.What might cause you to decide to leave the United States for another country? 2.Where...

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Think About 1. What might cause you to decide to leave the United States for another country? 2. Where would you go? 3. Why?

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Think About

1. What might cause you to decide to leave the United States for another country?

2. Where would you go?

3. Why?

Motives to Migrate

Push-Pull Factors and Regions of Dislocation

Voluntary Migration

• Push Factors– What makes a person leave a place

• Pull Factors– What makes a place attractive to new

migrants

Push Factors

• Economic– Poverty– Unemployment

• Political– Repression– Losing side

After the Civil War, over 1,000 confederate families left the US and went to…

Brazil!

Push Factors• Armed Conflict and War

– Refugees

• Environmental Conditions– Drought– Disaster

• Culture– Religion– Language

Environmental Push

Irish Potato Famine, 1840s

Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004

Cultural Push

Muslims leave India after 1947 Partition

Forced Migration

• Involuntary

• Economic– Slavery

• Ethnic Cleansing– Eugenics– “Purity”

Ethnic Cleansing, 1940s• Redrawn borders

after WWII– Poles displace

Germans– Germans displace

Poles

Ethnic Cleansing, 1990s

Bosnian War

•Former Yugoslavia

•Bosnians

•Croats

•Serbs

•100,000 killed

•1.8 Million displaced

Before and After

Trail of Tears

• Forcible removal of Cherokee from Carolinas to Oklahoma in 1838

• Over 4,000 die en route

Pull Factors

• Opportunity

• Security

• Kinship Links– Chain Migration

Chain Migration

Link 1:

Immigrant arrives in new place

Link 2:

Encourages family and friends to come

Link 3:

Others in home community have place to go

Link 4:

New community is created in new land

Link 5:

Process reinforced in “virtuous cycle”

Chain Migration

• Russian immigrants to NYC more concentrated due to chain migration

• Irish immigrants more diffuse – longer history in US

1910

Critical Thinking

• How has US immigration policy encouraged chain migration?

Major Migrations

Regions of Dislocation

• Three major regions

• Sub-Saharan Africa

• Tutsi-Hutu Conflict– Rwanda– The Congo (Zaïre)– Burundi

Sub-Saharan Africa

• Darfur– Arab Muslims v.

African Muslims– Genocide– Refugees throughout

region

• Somalia– Lawless– Spilling over to

neighbors

North Africa/Southwest Asia

• Israeli-Palestinian conflict

• Lebanon

• Iraq/Afghanistan

• Pakistan– Mostly

refugees from Afghanistan

• Sri Lanka– Civil war– Tamils

South Asia

Other Areas

• Southeast Asia– Vietnam War– Burma

• Europe– Former Yugoslavia

• South America– Colombia

Thinking Critically

• What factors need to be considered when repatriating refugees?