Key Issue 4- Why Do People Migrate Within a Country? Two main types of internal migration, which are: -Interregional migration- is movement from one region of a country to another -between rural and urban areas -Intraregional migration- is movement within one region -from older cities ...Read More

Why do People Migrate Within a Country?

Key Question: What are the global trends in migration and the phases of U.S. immigration? Migration is a permanent move to a new location. As people relocate, patterns are unconsciously created involving where they move and why. There are three main ...Read More

Global Migration Patterns/ Phases of US Immigration

Here is a collection of links to student created webpages.  Pages will be continually added to this page and sorted by topic.  I applaud my students in their efforts to create such great pages ... well most of them.lol Note: you ...Read More

Student Work

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The chapter outlines have moved here to Martin's new site (click here for link). They are very straightforward lists of the key elements of each chapter and do not define or summarize anything.  They can be useful as a checklist of ...Read More

Rubenstein Chapter Outlines

Population density: a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is usually applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans. Key geographic term. -Wikipedia.org 2/3 of worlds inhabitants in 4 regions: East, South, and Southeast Asia and Western ...Read More

Population Concentrations 2

Immigration- migration to a location. Some obstacles that immigrants face are the: citizens dislike of the cultural differences & exploitation by politicians for local economic problems. An example of the citizens dislike is in the state of California, where citizens voted to ...Read More

Immigration policies of host countries .

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For the FRQ portion of our Unit 3 test, we took on the actual FRQ on net in and net out-migration in the United States as given on the actual 2008 AP HUG Exam. As might be expected, some ...Read More

Unit 3 Migration FRQuestion Analysis Revision

FRQ Possibilities Themes to Review Diffusion – 2 types - relocation and expansion (3 subgroups) Population patterns – MDC and LDC trends, why? East-West Divide vs. new North-South Divide MDC vs. LDC – industrial patterns Outsoucing/offshoring Thomas Malthus, Ester Boserup and von Thunen (connections) Von Thunen vs. ...Read More

FRQ Possibilities Themes to Review

The entire population of the United States is a combination of emigration and immigration. This mainly took place during the 18th century with Africa and England, in the 19th century with Europeans, in the twentieth century with Latin America and ...Read More

Impact of immigration in US 7

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" Man is of all  sorts of luggage the most diffcult to be transported." -Adam Smith Introduction The United States has often been referred to as a "nation of immigrants." While immigration has historically been the country's foundation, immigration continues to shape ...Read More

Where Are Migrants Distributed? 7