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Chapter 8-Migration to the United States: The Impact on People and Places
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Answer the questions in complete sentences.
1. What word describes people who enter the United States to start new lives?
A word that best describes people who enter the U.S. is immigrants.
2. List 6 push factors that cause people to leave their home countries.
a. Answers Vary
d.
b.
e.
c.
f.
3. Create a statement that best summarizes the information in the table below.
Mexico lost more than 100, 000 to the U.S.
4. List 6 pull factors that draw people to the United States.
a. Answers Vary
d.
b.
e.
c.
f.
5. How do immigrants help the U.S. economy?
Immigrants help the U.S. economy by starting new businesses.
6. Define brain drain?
country.
Brain drain is the loss of educated people to another
Applying Geography Skills: Analyzing a Flow Map
Use the map and your knowledge of geography to complete the tasks below. This map shows migration
streams around the world.
7. Circle one arrow on the map. Describe where it begins and where it ends. Tell what the arrow
represents.
Use the map legend to help you.
The arrow begins in Africa and ends in Oceania. It represents a migration stream of about 10,000 people
from Africa to Oceania.
Exploring the Essential Question: How does migration affect the lives of people and the character of places?
The “Lost Boys of Sudan”
Cousins Michael Mach Paul and Abraham Anyieth were 6 and 7 when they fled their burning village in
1987. A brutal war in their homeland, the African country of Sudan, had left the boys without homes or
families.
The cousins became part of a group of refugees known as the “Lost Boys of Sudan.” The boys walked for
hundreds of miles in search of safety. Many died of hunger and thirst along the way. Those who survived
finally reached a refugee camp in the country of Kenya.
In 2001, some of the “Lost Boys” began another long journey. This one took them to the United States.
Here they were safe and had enough to eat. Still, adjusting to life in a new land was hard. At first, they
were homesick. They also had much to learn. They had never shopped for food. They had never seen a
stove or a microwave. Nor had they experienced cold winters.
In 2005, the cousins began a new walk together. This time, it was across a stage to receive degrees from
a community college in Pennsylvania. They had faced many challenges to get here. One was learning how to
type. “The professor said our papers had to be typed or we would fail,” Anyieth recalls. “I came from a
village with no electricity, no telephone. I had never seen a computer before. It took me five hours to
type my first page.” But the cousins are used to overcoming challenges. As Paul told a reporter, “Nothing
could ever be as hard as what we’ve been through.”
The Task: Summarizing an Immigrant Experience
The passage above is about two refugees from Sudan. Your task is to summarize how immigration has
changed their lives.
Step 1: Read the passage. Circle two details that describe the boys' lives in Africa. Underline two
details about their lives in the United States.
Step 2: Write a paragraph that summarizes how coming to the United States changed the lives of
these two "Lost Boys." Include the following in your summary:
a. A topic sentence that introduces your subject
b. Details about refugees' lives in Africa and the United States
c. A conclusion that summarizes how immigration changed their lives
Step 1: Circled details may include burning village, brutal war, without homes or families, hunger and
thirst, refugee camp. Underlined details may include safety, enough to eat, shopping, stove, microwave,
cold winters, receiving degrees, and computers.
Step 2: The paragraph should include all the elements listed in the prompt.
The lives of two of Sudan’s “Lost Boys” changed dramatically when they
came to America. In Africa, they were homeless and often hungry. They
lived in a camp for refugees. After coming to the United States, they
had to learn how to use things that Americans take for granted, like
supermarkets and stoves. They were able to go to school and graduate
from college. It was not easy, but these “Lost Boys” were able to build
new lives for themselves in their adopted country.