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Title: 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.

4
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.
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