WHERE DO PEOPLE MIGRATE TO?

GLOBAL MIGRATION FLOWS

GLOBAL MIGRATION

• Pre-1500s global-scale migration happened randomly
• For pursuit of species, fame, or exploration
• needed maps to help people start using exploration for good reasons
• Europeans colonized American, some coasts of Africa and parts of Asia (1500s-1800s)
• And interior of Africa and Asia (late 1800s-1900s)

GLOBAL MIGRATION

• Major flows of global migration (1500s) was mostly movement from Europe to North America
• Before 1830s about 2.75m Europeans left to settle overseas
• Hundreds of thousands of Europeans emigrated to Central and South America.
• Eventually many returned to their homelands

GLOBAL MIGRATION

• The first non-American Indian settlers were African American slaves
• European Impact generated major migrations
• European Impact generated major migrations
• British brought in workers from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka to South Asia
• British brought in workers from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka to South Asia
• British took them to East and South Africa
• Today, individuals with Indian ancestry are a minority in South Africa

GLOBAL MIGRATION

• Before the british came to India, Southeast Asia was mostly Hindu
• The british were highly important when it came to relocation of Asians

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REGIONAL MIGRATION FLOWS

REGIONAL MIGRATION

• Migration also falls in the regional scale
• Migrants go to a neighbor country for short term econ. opportunities

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ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITES

ISLANDS OF DEVELOPMENT

• Establishment based on acess to trade
• Near the coast
• Place within a region or country where most investments go
• Majority of well paying jobs

EXAMPLES

• E.X. Oil production areas in Togo, Nigeria
• People would go there to make money to send back to their families.
• Europe's occupation of SE Asia gave economic opportunities to the Chinese
• Chinese immigrated to places where they could earn $ for their family (1800-1900)

RECONNECTION OF CULTURAL GROUPS

Migration flows sometimes are seen to reconnect cultural groups across borders

Jewish immigrants returning to soon-to-be Israel after being encouraged by Britain. The land expanded to fit more people, later the U.N. Established it an independent state.

Overall increase: 50,000 in 1900 to 7,400,000 in present

CONFLICT AND WAR

MIGRATION IN EUROPE

• After WW2, 15 million Germans migrated west
• Before E. Germany built Berlin Wall, Germans fled to W. Germany
• Mils. Of germans fled to the Americas, Australia, and Israel
• Around 8 million people emigrated Europe after the war

CUBAN MIGRATION

• 1000s of Cubans applied for U.S. Residency annually
• Huge amounts of Cubans fled to U.S. during Castro's reign
• "Cuban Airlift" authorized cubans emigrating to U.S. away from comm.
• Most went to Miami, where they introduced hispanic culture
• 1980 - another wave of immigrants from Cuba

WET FOOT- DRY FOOT POLICY

• 1995
• Used by U.S. to stem flow
• Immigrants detained in water are deported
• Immigrants detained on land are not

VOCAB

• Global scale migration: migration on the global scale
• Explorers: played a major role in mapping world
• Colonization: physical process where the colonizer takes over a place
• -They set up a government and bring in people to gain control
• Islands of development: established cities based on trade