AP Human Geography Chapter 3-Migration Reader’s Notes



1. What is Migration? P. 78-851. How does U.S. Immigration handle the Cuban refugee cases when they arrive illegally on US soil the US? Answer: 2. What is the estimated total of undocumented immigrants living in the US as of 2010? Answer:3. What percentage of Haiti’s GDP comes from remittances sent by Haitians living in the US? Answer:4. What is the nationality of the vast majority of legal agricultural workers in Canada? Answer:5. What is the type of movement that involves journeys that begin at and bring us back to our home base? Answer:6. How many miles do commuters typically travel to and from work daily in Washington, DC? Answer:7. (Complete this sentence) What kind of cyclic movement is considered a luxury? Answer:8. Which of the identified types of movement creates our activity space? Answer:9. Give three (3) examples of periodic movement. Answer:Answer:Answer:10. What is a periodic form of movement that involves a system of pastoral farming whereby livestock and their keepers adjust their location to the seasonal availability of pastures called? Answer:11. What is a common form of periodic movement involving as many as 10 million Americans called? Answer:12. What is term to describe the long-term relocation of an individual, household, or group to a new location outside the community of origin called? Answer:13. Where did African American families primarily migrate during the first decades of the 20th century? Answer:14. Which US region experienced net outmigration during the 1990s? Answer:15. (Complete this sentence) In the United States during the late twentieth century, internal migration streams were moving people from Answer:16. Where do the majority of migrants move internally within Peru? Answer:2. Why do people migrate? 85-9417. Irish immigration to North America in the mid-1800s is an example of what type of migration? Answer:18. Which gender is more likely to migrate according to the studies? Answer:19. Where were the smallest number slaves involved in the Atlantic slave trade sent? See map page Answer:20. List Ernst Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration. Answer:Answer:Answer:Answer:Answer:21. Between 1788 and 1838, tens of thousands of convicts were shipped from Britain to what continent? Answer:22. (Complete the last sentence) Ravenstein, in his study of migration, suggested that there is an inverse relationship between the volume of migration and the distance between the source and destination. That is, the number of migrants _____ as the distance they know they must travel increases. Answer:23. 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? Answer:24. According to Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration, migrants who move longer distances tend to choose what type of location? Answer:25. What was the push factor that compelled more than 50,000 Asians to leave Uganda in 1972? Answer:26. Chain migration occurs as a result of what primary factor? Answer:27. Of the 10,000 inhabitants of the Caribbean island Montserrat, 7,000 have left the island and the remaining 3,000 have moved to the north coast of the island because of what reason? Answer:28. In what period of time (i.e. from ____ to ____) did European migration to the colonies reach its peak. See map page Answer:3. Where do people migrate? 95-9829. British colonial authorities stimulated migration of people from what region to colonies such as Singapore, Fiji, and Trinidad? Answer:30. What groups of people were stimulated by European colonialism to move to the cities (islands of development) of Southeast Asia where they became a significant minority population? Answer:31. List the three (3) major routes of human migration before 1950. See map page Answer:Answer:Answer:32. The textbook lists major concentrations of Chinese immigrants worldwide. List three of them. See map page Answer:Answer:Answer:33. Approximately, how many refugees have fled the regions of Burundi and the Sudan? See map pages 104-105.Answer:34. Where was the center of US population in 1850? See map page Answer:35. What is considered the official status of a person who has a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion? Answer:36. In terms of total number of refugees, which region in the world is most severely affected by a refugee problem? Answer:37. The intervention of what country in the civil war in Afghanistan caused great numbers of refugees to leave the country in 1979? Answer:38. One recent refugee crisis took place in Southwest Asia in 1991 in the aftermath of the Gulf War. Which refugee population of northern Iraq was forced to leave their villages and flee across the Turkish and Iranian borders? Answer:39. The Afghan Taliban (Islamic fundamentalists) movement, spawned in Pakistan, created a counter migration of 2.5 million Afghanis to what country when they came to power? Answer:40. Where are the largest refugee numbers in Southeast Asia today? Answer:41. In 1990, the collapse of what European country produced the largest refugee crisis in Europe since the end of World War II? Answer:42. What was the only country in the western hemisphere to have a serious refugee problem as a result of its struggle against the narcotics trade? Answer:43. What country has occupied the Sinai Peninsula since 1967 see map page 98?Answer:4. How do governments affect migration? 98-11044. Where did the greatest proportion of immigrants to the USA come from in 1910? Answer:45. In the period from 1882-1907, the US Congress passed exclusionary immigration laws designed to keep out which ethnic group? Answer:46. What is the term that describes the practice of excluding people with criminal records, health problems, or subversive political beliefs from immigrating called? Answer:47. Since September 2001, the focus of concern regarding immigration control has shifted to keeping out which group of people? Answer:48. In 2004, asylum seekers from what country were automatically detained by the U.S? Answer: ................
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