migration
a permanent move to a new location
how is net migration measured
Net migration is measured on the difference between emigrants and immigrants if the number of immigrants exceeds the number of emigrants than the net migration is positive and the region has net in migration
what is the major focus of geographic migration research?
If the number of emigrants exceeds the number of immigrants the net migration is negative and the region has net out migration.
Which two continents provide the largest number of emigrants
Latin America and South Asia
Which three continents receive the largest number of immigrants?
Europe North America Southwest Asia
How is the distance decay model useful in predicting where internal migrants will settle?
It is useful because it shows how far a person will travel knowing the farther a place is located the less likely that people will migrate to it.
What is meant by the term intraregional migration?
Is movement within one region? The main type of intraregional migration has been within urban areas, from older cities to newer suburbs
What were the two main source regions for immigrants to the US during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?
Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe forced migration or voluntary
Between 1820 and 1920 32 million people immigrated to the US, most of them came from where?
Europe
Which European country has provided the largest number of immigrants to the US?
Germany
In the late 20th century 75% of U.S. immigrants come from which two continents?
Latin America and Asia
Half of all US immigrants settle in four states, what are they
California, New York, Texas, and Florida
The book's author characterizes US internal migration patterns in terms of 5 distinct periods, what have been the major flows in the twentieth and twenty-first century?
Filling the Great Plains and moving south
In Canada, which two provinces have been the recipients of internal migrants?
Alberta and British Columbia