Chapter 3, Migration Study Guide
Chapter 3, Migration Study Guide
Resources: Chapter 3 Rubenstein, Moodle notes ppt’s etc, Study guide p.44-55
- Migration selectivity: Where do people migrate and Why? Why do migrants face obstacles? Why do people migrate within a country?
- Distinguish between and give the characteristics of the following types of Human movement: circulation and migration, forced and voluntary migration, push and pull factors.
- Major voluntary and involuntary migrations at different scales: case studies: Pogrom and Diaspora, Slave trade.
- Characterize a refugee and refugee populations
- Theories of migration: Ravenstein: laws of migration**, Stouffer, Lee and Zelinsky.
- International Migration, temporary, internal, inter-regional, intra-regional and immigration to the US.
- Explain how distance decay, intervening obstacles and opportunities, and migration selectivity factors affect migration and circulation patterns.
- Short-term, local movements, and activity space: your daily routine
- Socioeconomic consequences of migration: impact of emigration and immigration. Unauthorized immigration i.e. Mexicans in the USA case study.
- Gravity Model: can we predict migration?
- Correlate migration patterns to the demographic transition model.
Terms to know: I would like you to try and mind map these terms/concepts. This will help you to connect the unit together and give you the “Big picture”.
Activity space
Brain drain
Chain migration
Circulation
Critical distance
Dislocation
Distance decay
Emigration
Forced migration
Gravity model
Guest workers
Immigration
In-migration
Internal migration
Inter-regional migration
Intervening obstacles
Intervening opportunity
Intraregional migration
Migration
Migration transition
Mobility
Migration selectivity
Net-migration rate
Out-migration
Pull factors
Push factors
Quotas
Refugees
Space-time prism
Spatial interaction
Step migration
Undocumented immigrants
Voluntary migration
These two terms are in the course description and I have defined them for you:
Human Capital: refers to the stock of skills and knowledge embodied in the ability to perform labor so as to produce economic value. It is the skills and knowledge gained by a worker through education and experience.
Life course: "a sequence of socially defined events and roles that the individual enacts over time" (Giele and Elder 1998, p. 22).
The test will include:
Multiple choice questions (20min) and a FRQ (30 min) I will expect a brief thumb nail outline.
Go on the moodle and use the chapter study resources from the textbook website as well as the chapter reviews, study stack etc.