Why Do People Migrate Within a Country?

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Why Do People Migrate Within a Country?

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Objectives

• Migration between regions within the United
  States.
• Migration between regions in other countries.
• Migration within one region.

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Migration Between Regions Within the United States

• Colonial Settlement population concentration
  along Atlantic coast. Why?
• Intervening obstacles (mountains, thick forests,
  and hostile Indians)

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Migration Between Regions Within the United States

• Early Settlement in the Interior transportation
  improvement opened up settlement. How?
• Erie Canal linked NYC to Great Lakes. Allowed
  farmers to move west.

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Migration Between Regions Within the United States

• Migration to California Gold Rush unsuitable
  farm land in the great plains rapidly sped the
  way for the population center to shift west.

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Migration Between Regions Within the United States

• Settlement of the Great Plains rate slowed
  westward b/c European migration
• Land grants and technological improvements to
  farm Great Plains

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Migration Between Regions Within the United States

• Recent growth of the South pop moved 250 miles
  west (1940 to 2000). Moved southward 75 mi.
  Why?
• Jobs and climate (area known Sunbelt)

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Migration Between Regions in Other Countries

• Russia built mines and factories near raw
  materials.
• Far North 45 of land (lt 2 pop) solution?
• Forced migration
• Collapse of USSR ended government sponsored
  optimal locations for factories.

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Brazil

• New Capital Brazil moved capital 600 miles to
  the interior. Why?

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Indonesia

• Indonesia incentives to move from Java (2/3 pop)
  to other islands.
• One-way air ticket, 5 acres, building material,
  seeds, and pesticides, and a year worth of rice.

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Europe

• Follow the former colonies and poorer
  European countries migrated North and West.

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India

• Gov. Permits limit migration within to protect
  local economies and ethnic identity.

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Migration Within One Region

• Urbanization Trend
• MDC ¾ urban population
• LDC since 1982 same trend is happening (23 to
  42 in Asia)

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Migration from urban to Suburban Areas

• MDC intraregional migration from cities to
  suburbs (21 ratio)
• Pull factor NOT JOBS but WHAT?
• Bigger, access, more privacy

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Migration from Urban to Rural Areas

• Counterurbanization MDC experienced more people
  moving to rural than moving to urban. WHY?
• Rat race versus the farm
• What makes it possible?
• Modern communications transportation

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Gentrification the restoration of run-down urban
areas by the middle class (resulting in the
displacement of low-income residents).