Migration: Key Issue 2

Where Are Migrants Distributed?

Rubenstein, pp. 85-92

● GLOBAL MIGRATION PATTERNS

  1. What country has the most international migrants?
  1. What three continents have net out-migration?
  1. What three continents have net in-migration?
  1. What are the three largest flow of migrants from where to where?



● U.S. IMMIGRATION PATTERNS

  1. Finish this statement: The world’s third most populous country (the US) is inhabited overwhelmingly by…
  1. Annotate the graph below from your reading of pages 87. Be sure to label all “peaks” and “valleys” (as indicated by arrows) as well as the national origins of immigrants during different periods.

  1. Where does the U.S. receive most of its immigrants? (states or regions)
  1. The US has experienced 3 main migratory periods. List the 3 periods.
  1. List where most immigrants came from in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd eras of U.S. immigration.
  1. 1st Peak
  1. 2nd Peak
  1. 3rd Peak
Immigration from Less Developed Regions
  1. Immigration to the US dropped sharply in the 1930s and 1940s due to:
  1. 1950s to the first decade of the 21st century (2000-2010) ¾ of the recent U.S. immigrants have come from:
  1. What are the three countries that send the most immigrants from Asia in recent years?
  1. A. How did the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act attempt to change the status of some illegal immigrants?
B. What was the effect?
  1. What is the meaning of the USA having a “symbolic closing of the frontier?
Looking at Figure 3-9
  1. In order, what two countries have sent the most immigrants to the USA from Central America?
  1. In order, what5 countries of South America have sent the most immigrants to the USA?
  1. In order, what four island countries have sent the most immigrants to the USA from the Caribbean?

● IMPACT OF IMMIGRATION ON THE UNITED STATES

  1. In what stage of the Demographic Transition Model were European countries that sent immigrants?
  1. Most European countries today are in what stage of the Demographic Transition?
  1. Explain some advantages and disadvantages of diffusion of European culture abroad.
Unauthorized Immigration to the United States
  1. What are undocumented immigrants?
  1. Where do most undocumented immigrants to the US come from?
Destination of Immigrants within the United States
  1. How many undocumented immigrants are living in the U.S. according to the Pew Hispanic Center in 2008?
  1. Recent immigrants are not distributed uniformly throughout UDA.
  • 1/5 are in:
  • 1/6 are in:

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