Chapter 3 Key Issue #1 Š Web Guide

Why do People Migrate?

pgs 73-78

1. Reasons for Migrating

*Using the following web site, http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/columns/george/1436.asp , answer

  the following question. 

            *According to this web site, what are the reasons for migration?

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*Using the following web site, http://www.revision-notes.co.uk/revision/171.html , answer the following

  question. 

            *List the 10 laws of Migration from Ravenstein.

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*Next to the seanarios below, select one of RavensteinÕs law as a reason for migration.  Simply jot down

  the number of the law next to the seanario.

_____Explorer                                                                     ______College student moving back home

_____salesperson moving up in the corporate world.                    because its too cold in Maine.

_____Latinos crossing the border illegally.                        ______Farmer moving into town.

_____Woman comes from China and settles                  ______College ball player drafted to play

            in Los Angeles.                                                                        overseas.

*Using the following web site, http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/basics , answer the following

  question.

            *According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, how many people are considered refugees?

            *Give the numbers below.

                        Asia__________________         Europe_____________________                                    Africa_________________  N. America__________________

                  Oceana_______________  Latin America________________