Exam 3: Migration

Define push and pull factors and discuss,with examples,the various types of push and pull factors.

Which US states experienced highest percent change during the period 2010-2012

Internal migration in Peru is fairly simple with the majority of migrants moving to

In recent years,the largest numbers of internally displaced persons in Southeast Asia are reported from

One of the "laws" of migration as derived by Ravenstein states that

Very few countries practice selective immigration.

The type of movement that involves journeys that begin at and bring us back to our home base is called

What push factor compelled more than 50,000 Asians to leave Uganda in 1972?

During the first decades of the twentieth century,African American families in the United States migrated primarily to

In the period from 1882-1907,the United States Congress passed exclusionary immigration laws designed to keep __________ out of the immigrant stream.

In 2010,the center of the U.S.population was located in:

Pull factors are the conditions or perceptions which help a migrant to decide to leave a place.

What is the model which states that spatial interaction between places (e.g.migration)is directly related to the population size and inversely related to the distance between them?

Between 1788 and 1838,tens of thousands of convicts were shipped from Britain to which of the following continents?

Since September 2001,there has been a greater concern about immigration control to

Look at the map (figure 3.10).Choose three numbered migrations and describe the migrations by type,by who was involved,and the period and consequences of the migration.

In the years 2000-2009,more Asians immigrated to the U.S.than Europeans.

Major concentrations of Chinese immigrants are found in all of the following places except:

Sri Lanka has never experienced significant refugee problems.

The map of modern migrations shows a movement from European Russia east toward the Pacific and southeast into Central Asia.