• Mobility - ability to move from one location to another
  

• Migration - permanent relocation, major decision
  
  
• Push factors -
  
  
• Pull factors -
  
  

• Immigration -
  
  
• Emigration -
  
  
• Net Migration - difference between immigrants and emigrants
  
  

• Internal or National
  
  
  • Interregional Migration -
    
    
  • Intraregional Migration -
    
    
• International migration - permanent movement from one country to another
  
  
  • voluntary migration - permanent movement undertaken by choice
    
    
  • forced factors - permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors
    
    
• Refugees - people forced to move because of political persecution
  
  
  
  
• Migration transition - comparing stages to those of the demographic transition
  
  

• Economic
  
  
  • push
    
  • pull
    
    
• Cultural
  
  
  • push
    
  • pull
    

• Environmental
  
  
  • push
    
  • pull
    

• Several waves
  
  
  • reasons
    
    
  • impacts
    
    
• Different source regions
  
  
  • Northern & Western Europe
    
    
  • Southern & Eastern Europe
    
    
• Immigration today
  
  

• Chain Migrations - migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there.
  
  
• Quotas - a law that places maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country.
  
  
• Brain Drain -
  
  
• Guest Workers
  
  
• Remittances -
  
  

International Migration Trends to the U.S.

• Movement from Asia (1970s & 80s)
  
  
  
• Movement from Latin America (1990s)
  
  
  
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