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Topic: Patterns of Migration (Global
and Domestic)
• Aim: How do
migration patterns
manifest globally?
International Migration Patterns
• Approximately 9 percent of the world’s people
are international migrants.
• Global pattern reflects migration tendencies
from developing countries to developed
countries.
– Net Out-Migration
• Asia, Latin America, and Africa
– Net In-Migration
• North America, Europe, and Oceania
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Global Migration Patterns:
• Generally flow of migration
goes from LDC’s to HDC’s
• Typically flow from Asia and
Latin America to both
Europe and North America
• Highest % of migrants in
Middle East due to various
push/pull factors (formation
of Israel, etc)
GLOBAL MIGRATION PATTERNS The width of the arrows shows the
amount of net migration between regions of the world. Countries with net inmigration are in red, and those with net outmigration are in blue
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NY Times Global Migration Map:
• http://www.nytimes.com/ref/world/200706
22_CAPEVERDE_GRAPHIC.html
U.S. Immigration Patterns:
• How have patterns of migration changed
throughout the history of the United States?
• “Where do immigrants
to the United States
come from? A new Pew
report finds that this
has been slowly
changing over time. In
1992, most legal
immigrants came from
Latin America and
Europe. Nowadays,
they are more likely to
come from Asia and
Africa” - The Changing
Origins of U.S.
Immigration, May 2013
U.S. Immigration Patterns
• U.S. has more foreign-born residents than any
other country: approximately 43 million as of
2010—growing by 1 million annually.
• Three main eras of immigration in the U.S.
– Colonial settlement in seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries
– Mass European immigration in the late 19th and early
twentieth centuries
– Asian and Latin American integration in the late
Twentieth and early twenty-first centuries
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The Lower East Side is one of the oldest neighborhoods in city and has been a home
to countless new immigrant communities from all over the world.
IMMIGRATION TO THE
UNITED STATES Europeans
comprised more than 90 percent of
immigrants to the United States
during the nineteenth century. Since
the 1980s, Latin American and Asia
have been the dominant sources of
immigrants.
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CHANGING CENTER OF U.S. POPULATION The population
center is the average location of everyone in the country, the “center
of population gravity.” If the United States were a flat plane placed on
top of a pin, and each individual weighed the same, the population
center would be the point where the population distribution causes the
flat plane to balance on the head of a pin.
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Migration to the U.S. by country of origin
U.S. Immigration:
1840 - 1930: W. and N. European transitioning to Southern and Eastern
European by 1910
– Irish (potato famine in 1840s) and Germans
– During 1900s: Italians, Russians, Austria-Hungary (Czech, Poland,
Romania, etc.)
1950 - Today: Asians and Latin Americans; declining Europeans
– Asians: China, India; 1980s -1990s: Philippines, Vietnam, and South
Korea
– Latin America: Mexico, Dom. Rep., El Salvador, Cuba, Haiti
 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act admitted former illegals in
1990, 1991.
• Destinations of U.S. Immigrants - ethnic neighborhoods often result
of
• Chain migration: the migration of people to a specific location due to
relatives or members of same nationality having moved there as well.
– Mexicans: California, Texas, Illinois, New York
– Caribbean: Florida or New York
– Chinese and Indians: New York & California
– Other Asians: (Filipino, Vietnamese, etc.): California
New York Harbor and Ellis Island. Ellis Island is connected to New Jersey by
bridge. Liberty Island and the Statue of Liberty are south of Ellis Island.
Ellis Island:
Migration from Latin America to the United States