Migration

• Mobility is the most generalized term that refers to all types of movements
• short term and repetitive acts of mobility are referred to as circulation. Example: college students going to school and then coming home every year for holidays and summer 
• Permanent move to a new location is migration 
• Ravenstein's laws for the distance that migrants typically move 
• most migrants relocate a short distance and remain in the same country 
• long distance migrants to other countries head for major centers because of economic activity 
• International migration- permanent move, voluntary or forced, to a different country 
• Internal migration- permanent move in same country, interregional, intraregional 
• Approx. 9% of world's people are international migrants
• Global pattern reflects migration tendencies from developing countries to developed countries 
• Net-Out migration: Asia, Latin America, Africa (push force)
• Net-In migrants: North America, Europe, Oceania (pull force)
• US has more foreign born residents than any other country in the world
• approx. 43 million as of 2010-- growing by 1 million annually 
• 3 main eras of immigration in U.S. 
• colonial settlements in 17th and 18th centuries 
• Mass European immigration in late 19th and early 20th centuries
• Asian and Latin America integration in the late 20th and early 21st centuries