Movement: How and Why Do People, Goods, and Ideas Go from One Location to Another?

Theme 4: Movement

Movement: How and why do people, goods, and ideas go from one location to another?

The movement of people from place to place is called: MIGRATION.

Ø Emigration – when people leave or exit one country and move into another

Ø Immigration – when people move into another country

Ø Internal migration – when people move from place to place within their own country.

L When a person is forced to leave their homeland for safety reasons – that person is referred to as a REFUGEE.

Types of Migration

Emigration /
Immigration /
Internal Migration /

People move or migrate for many different reasons.

Ø Push factors are negative feelings or bad things that make a person want to leave their homeland.

Ø Pull factors are positive things about a country that make a person want to move into that land.

Push Factors / Pull Factors
Give Examples of Push Factors / Give of Examples of Pull Factors
Give Examples of Push Factors
Religious Persecution
Limits on Personal Freedom
War/Conflict
Oppressive Government
Lack of Jobs
Lack of Opportunities
Natural Disasters
Lack of Food
Overpopulation / Give of Examples of Pull Factors
Personal Freedom
Political Freedom
Peace
Economic Opportunity
Jobs
Fertile/Arable Farmland
Family/Ethnic Ties
Land Availability
Push Factors
Make you want to move out of your country (Emigrate) / Pull Factors
Make you want to move into another country (Immigrate)

Reasons for Migration - Label each statement as a push factor or a pull factor.

______1. Overpopulation

______2. Lots of jobs available

______3. War

______4. Famine

______5. Religious freedom

______6. Family or ethnic ties in another country

______7. Land availability in another country

______8. Political oppression (no right to vote)

______9. Natural disasters

______10. No jobs available

______11. Limits on personal freedom

______12. Drought

______13. Lack of arable land

______14. Educational opportunities (free school)

______15. Persecution based on religion

Reasons for Migration (Key)

____Push______1. Overpopulation

____Pull______2. Lots of jobs available

____Push______3. War

___Push______4. Famine

___Pull______5. Religious freedom

___Pull______6. Family or ethnic ties in another country

___ Pull ______7. Land availability in another country

___ Push ______8. Political oppression (no right to vote)

_____ Push ____ 9. Natural disasters

___Push______10. No jobs available

____Push______11. Limitations placed on personal freedom

___Push______12. Drought

___Push______13. Lack of arable land

___Pull______14. Educational opportunities (free school)

___Push______15. Persecution based on religion

PUSH AND PULL FACTORS

Please list four Push Factors and four Pull Factors. Illustrate each factor.

The movement of goods from place to place is called: TRADE.

Ø Countries buy and sell goods to one another.

Ø Resources are not distributed evenly over the earth’s surface.

Ø Many countries may have an abundance of one resource while other countries may not have it.

Ø These resources could include:

1. Raw materials (natural resources), 2. Manufactured goods (products), 3. Information or services (human resources).

4. Technology or machinery (capital resources)

Ø Countries sell their excess resources. When a country ships a good out, that good is called an export.

Ø When a country buys a good and brings it into the country, that good is called an import.

Ø Sometimes a country can produce and sell a good cheaper than other countries can produce it. That is called: Comparative advantage.

Ø If you import (buy) more than you export (sell) that is a trade deficit. L

Ø If you export (sell) more that you import (buy) that is a trade surplus. J

Choose five personal items. Find out where they were made. List the item and its place of origin.

Tomorrow in class we will compare our products and plot the countries of origin on a world map.

We will use this information to make find out what kinds of goods or products the United States imports. We can then discuss rationalizations for the trade imports of the United States.

The movement of ideas from place to place is: cultural diffusion or cultural interaction.

Ø This can happen due through migration, trade and war.

Ø Migration can impact a region through:

1. Language

2. Religion or Religious Freedom

3. Customs and Traditions

4. Cultural landscape

Ø You can see the evidence of cultural interaction by:

1. The spread of U.S. culture to other regions. (Coke, music, clothing)

2. Popularization of other cultures in the U.S. (food, ideas, language, religion)