Chapter 6
Fact–we all migrate. Everyone migrates. Humans eat, sleep, make babies, and migrate.

Today migration is associated with levels of legal status and immigration law, but it’s important to remember that migrating is a typical behavior that all humans do, and have done, for the 200,000 years we’ve been on the planet. And in the United States, immigration from other countries is now the main factor in population growth. Immigrants have saved the United States from some of the stage 5 issues facing countries like Japan, Denmark, and Italy.

What you need to learn

What migration looks like around the world and why it matters–causes and types of migrations.

Causes

Push & Pull Factors

economic

social

political

environmental

Process

Intervening Obstacles

economic

social

political

environmental

Types of Migration

Forced

refugee

internally displaced asylum seekers

Voluntary

internal

transnational

guest worker

step migration

chain migration

transhumance

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