MIGRATION FLOW AND GUEST WORKERS

Forms Of Migration

• The various kinds of migration depend on the flow and number of people involved
• Intercontinental: across continents
• Rural-urban
• Forced
• Voluntary

United States Great Migration

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Europe Migration

EXAMPLES OF MIGRATION FLOWS

• Russia- people experienced internal migration and moved east from the heartland to the shores of the Pacific.
• Mexico- 1 million Mexicans successfully cross into the US each year (legally and illegally). Mexico is experiencing labor shortage and more people are moving north. They travel to the Southern States such as New Mexico and Arizona.

NATIONAL MIGRATION FLOWS

• A massive migration stream that carried the center of the population west and shifting from he north to the south
• After American civil war milllions of African Americans migrated north for industrial work
• In the 1970s the reverse act occurred with African Americans leaving the north and returning to south
• Causes: living conditions, civil rights act, economic opportunities

Guest Workers

• After WWII, Europe lost many young men and needed workers
• U.S. Sponsored and helped the guest workers by making the Marshall plan.
• Europe assumed they would eventually leave but they stayed

Guest Workers

• 2 flows of migration began, people from poorer European countries went to Western Europe to work.
• People from North Africa went to France, people from Turkey went to Germany.
• Guest workers are legal, and usually have work visas.

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