The Impact of Migration

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The Impact of Migration
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Essential Question

• How do you examine reasons and patterns of human
  migration?

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Migration

• Migration is the process of moving from one place
  to live in another.

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Immigrant

• A person who moves into a new country.

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Emigrant

• A person who moves out of a country (exit)

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Example

• If Joe moves from Spain to France. He is an
  _______ to Spain and an _______ to France.
• Emigrant to Spain
• Immigrant to France

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Video Questions

• 1. Why do so many people leave their home
  countries to start a new life in America?
• 2. Do you think the large emigration from Mexico
  to the United States hurts or helps Mexico? WHY?

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Push Pull Theory

• When one thing pushes you out of one location,
  another thing pulls you into a different
  location.
• Explains the reasons why people migrate.

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The Irish Potato Famine

• During the summer of 1845, a "blight of unusual
  character" devastated Ireland's potato crop, the
  basic staple in the Irish diet. A few days after
  potatoes were dug from the ground, they began to
  turn into a slimy, decaying, blackish "mass of
  rottenness." The cause was a fungus that had
  traveled from Mexico to Ireland.

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• "Famine fever a variety of diseases-soon spread
  through the Irish countryside. Observers reported
  seeing children crying with pain and looking
  "like skeletons, their features sharpened with
  hunger and their limbs wasted, so that there was
  little left but bones." Masses of bodies were
  buried without coffins, a few inches below the
  soil.

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• Over the next ten years, more than 750,000 Irish
  died and another 2 million left their homeland
  for Great Britain, Canada, and the United States.
  Within five years, the Irish population was
  reduced by a quarter.

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• Irish peasants subsisted on a diet consisting
  largely of potatoes, since a farmer could grow
  triple the amount of potatoes as grain on the
  same plot of land. A single acre of potatoes
  could support a family for a year. About half of
  Ireland's population depended on potatoes for
  subsistence.

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• Tenant farmers held short-term leases that were
  payable each six months in some areas. If the
  tenants failed to pay their rent, they were
  jailed or evicted and their homes burned. During
  the time of the Great Hunger (1845-1847),
  approximately 500,000 people were evicted, many
  of whom died of starvation or disease or
  relocated to mismanaged and inadequate poor
  houses.

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• The alternative to eviction, poorhouses, or
  starvation was emigration, which rose to over two
  million people from 1845-1855. Emigrants tended
  to follow their families which were found mostly
  in Great Britain, United States, Canada, New
  Zealand, and Australia.
• There were two ways out of this Irish
  nightmare, death and emigration.

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• In a paragraph, describe the Irish Potato Famine.
  
• Describe what it was
• Describe its effects on the people

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Homework

• Look at the following pictures in the book and
  decide why people would want to move out of these
  locations.
• Pages 79, 612, 628, 653, 657, 668, 679, 705

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Reasons for Migration

• On each of the following slides make a list of
  things that pushed and pulled people to move.

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Family

• Many people migrate to be closer to their family
  and friends. It gives them a familiar feeling in
  a new place. When immigrants came to the United
  States, they often moved near family or friends.
  This eventually led to entire neighborhoods full
  of one specific culture.

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Climate

• People often migrate to live in a climate that
  lets them live how they want. The climate affects
  what crops can grow, what animals can be bred,
  and even what kind of house can be built. Some
  people even migrate with the seasons, living up
  north during the summer and in the south during
  the winter, to have more temperate climates
  year-round.

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Natural Resources

• People migrate to an area to live near natural
  resources they need or want. They can use these
  natural resources to help them survive and trade
  them for other things they do not have. Middle
  Eastern countries are near oil, and they can
  trade it with other countries for things they do
  not have, like timber and types of food.

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Employment

• People also migrate to an area because of job
  opportunities. As cities grow, more people are
  migrating into them from the country to have
  better and more jobs. People also migrate to
  different countries to get better jobs at higher
  wages.