Migration

Analyze the causes and effects of migration in African history (mainly forced migration).

Your attitude tells the world what you expect from life Anonymous

In Spiral – If you could give advice to a migrant coming to America, what would it be?

Show Scene 7 of migration video

• Migration movie the chapter on the train

Close Reading Articleif not here, move to another

day• “San Pedro Sula Murder Capital of the World”, if you have copies

• Otherwise, show scene 7 Train of Death in the movie Wetback

Write• If you could give advice to a migrant coming to America, what would it be? Explain.

MigrationPush and Pull Factors

Directions: Walk around the room and read each picture about migration. Then tell which category of migration it fits into your

ESPN chart. Also label the type of image it is. See example:

Image 1

Year: 1900Place: ItalyA family leaves for America, the “Land of Opportunity.”

Directions: Walk around the room and read each picture about migration. Then tell which category of migration it fits into your

ESPN chart. Also label the type of image it is. See example:

#1, Italian family, Pull, economic opportunity,

Image 2 Hurricane Katrina, 2005

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When: 1937Place: USA, OklahomaComment: Lack of water drove many “Okies” out to new places with the promise of jobs.

Image 4 When: 1980Place: CubaMariel Boat Lift

Castro suddenly permitted people to leave Cuba. He opened the jails and thousands left for Miami, including Scarface.

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When: 1995Place: Turkey

Comment: Guest Workers arrive in Germany for work.

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When: 1880’sPlace: Nebraska

Comment: We left big city life to build a new life in the Great Plains of America.

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When: Present DayWhere: Brasîlia, Capital of Brazil

Comments: Many migrants live in poor quality housing on the city’s edge.

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We have to run from others who want to kill us. We are refugees.

Our country is overrun by drugs and gangs. It is not safe and there are no good jobs.

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When: Present DayPlace: Cuidad Juarez

Migrants will often risk their lives in hopes of economic opportunities that will enable them to send money home (remittances) to their family members who remain behind.

Economic Conditions –

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In Montserrat, a 1995 volcano made the southern half of the island, including the capital city of Plymouth, uninhabitable. People who remained migrated to the north or to the U.S.Environmental Conditions

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East AsiaImage 12

In late 1800s and early 1900s, Chinese migrated throughout Southeast Asia to work in trade, commerce, and finance.

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About 700,000 Jews migrated to then-Palestine between 1900 and 1948.

After 1948, when the land was divided into two states (Israel and Palestine), 600,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were pushed out of newly-designated Israeli territories.

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Guest Workers• Guest workers – migrants whom a

country allows in to fill a labor need, assuming the workers will go “home” once the labor need subsides.

- have short term work visas- send remittances to home

country

RufugeeA person who flees across an international boundary because of a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion.

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Why do People Migrate? (at least 3 reasons)

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