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Title: Why Do People Migrate Within a Country?


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Why Do People Migrate Within a Country?
  • C3K4

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Objectives
  • Migration between regions within the United
    States.
  • Migration between regions in other countries.
  • Migration within one region.

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Migration Between Regions Within the United States
  • Colonial Settlement population concentration
    along Atlantic coast. Why?
  • Intervening obstacles (mountains, thick forests,
    and hostile Indians)

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Migration Between Regions Within the United States
  • Early Settlement in the Interior transportation
    improvement opened up settlement. How?
  • Erie Canal linked NYC to Great Lakes. Allowed
    farmers to move west.

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Migration Between Regions Within the United States
  • Migration to California Gold Rush unsuitable
    farm land in the great plains rapidly sped the
    way for the population center to shift west.

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Migration Between Regions Within the United States
  • Settlement of the Great Plains rate slowed
    westward b/c European migration
  • Land grants and technological improvements to
    farm Great Plains

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Migration Between Regions Within the United States
  • Recent growth of the South pop moved 250 miles
    west (1940 to 2000). Moved southward 75 mi.
    Why?
  • Jobs and climate (area known Sunbelt)

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Migration Between Regions in Other Countries
  • Russia built mines and factories near raw
    materials.
  • Far North 45 of land (lt 2 pop) solution?
  • Forced migration
  • Collapse of USSR ended government sponsored
    optimal locations for factories.

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Brazil
  • New Capital Brazil moved capital 600 miles to
    the interior. Why?

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Indonesia
  • Indonesia incentives to move from Java (2/3 pop)
    to other islands.
  • One-way air ticket, 5 acres, building material,
    seeds, and pesticides, and a year worth of rice.

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Europe
  • Follow the former colonies and poorer
    European countries migrated North and West.

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India
  • Gov. Permits limit migration within to protect
    local economies and ethnic identity.

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Migration Within One Region
  • Urbanization Trend
  • MDC ¾ urban population
  • LDC since 1982 same trend is happening (23 to
    42 in Asia)

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Migration from urban to Suburban Areas
  • MDC intraregional migration from cities to
    suburbs (21 ratio)
  • Pull factor NOT JOBS but WHAT?
  • Bigger, access, more privacy

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Migration from Urban to Rural Areas
  • Counterurbanization MDC experienced more people
    moving to rural than moving to urban. WHY?
  • Rat race versus the farm
  • What makes it possible?
  • Modern communications transportation

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Gentrification the restoration of run-down urban
areas by the middle class (resulting in the
displacement of low-income residents).
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