INTERNAL MIGRATION

INTERNAL MIGRATION

INTERREGIONAL MIGRATION - US• WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE

BETWEEN INTER & INTRA REGIONAL?

• BEWTEEN REGIONS IN THE U.S.

• PUSH & PULL FACTORS – LEE’S ‘LAWS’ DIVIDE FACTORS CAUSING MIGRATION INTO 2 GROUPS.

• CENTER OF POPULATION GRAVITY IN MISSOURI

• WHERE DID 1ST EUROPEANS LAND IN PRESENT DAY U.S.?

• WHAT PUSHED THEM OUT OF EUROPE? WHAT PULLED THEM TO N.A.?

• 1790-COASTAL; TO 1840 APPALACHIANS; TO 90 GOLD; TO 1940 GREAT PLAINS; 1850-NOW MOVING SOUTH

• SLOWED DOWN DUE TO RECESSION 2008

INTERREGIONAL MIGRATION-RUSSIA• WORLD’S LARGEST

COUNTRY IN LAND AREA• FORMER USSR EAGER

TO DEVELOP ASIAN & FAR NORTH

• FACTORIES NEAR RESOURCES

• WHERE ARE RESOURCES?

• WHAT DID USSR DO?• FORCED THEN

VOLUNTARY

CHINA & BRAZIL• 100 MILLION HAVE EMIGRATED

FROM RURAL AREAS IN CHINESE INTERIOR TO LARGE URBAN AREAS ALONG THE EAST COAST.

• PUSH? PULL?• ECONOMIC GROWTH HAS LED TO

LESS RESTRICTIONS ON INTERREG. MIG.

• POPULATION CLUSTERED ALONG ATLANTIC COAST

• INTERIOR SPARSELY INHABITED

• SAO PAULO & RIO 2 LGST CITIES

• 1960 CAPITAL MOVED TO BRASILIA – FORWARD CAPITAL

• PUSH – PULL TO INTERIOR?• PUSH – PULL TO COAST?

INTRAREGIONAL MIGRATION - 3 TYPES• 1) RURAL TO URBAN IND. REV. EURO & U.S.

• PUSH? PULL?• 1800 US URBAN POP 5% OF

TOTAL, 50% 1920 & 80% 2010• URBANIZATION: MOVEMENT

OF PEOPLE FROM RURAL TO URBAN AREAS

• ASIA, LATIN AMERICA, SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA EXPERIENCING URBANIZATION PRESENTLY: 80% LATIN AM, 45% ASIA, 40% SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

• 2) URBAN TO SUBURBAN: MVMT OF PEOPLE FROM CITY TO SUBURB: SUBURBANIZATION

• DEVELOPED REGIONS; US, CAN., EURO

• PUSH? PULL? – WE’LL SEE SHORTLY

• 3) URBAN TO RURAL: COUNTER-URBANIZAITON IS NET MIG FROM URBAN TO RURAL

• PUSH? PULL?• NEW TREND IN 21ST CENTURY

BUT WHERE?