Exam 3: Migration

Internal migration of Huichol Indians to northern Mexican agricultural regions is a recent development in Mexico's internal migration pattern.

Pull factors are the conditions or perceptions which help a migrant to decide to leave a place.

British colonial authorities stimulated migration of people from this region to colonies such as Singapore,Fiji,and Trinidad.

Most nomadic movement takes place according to travel patterns that are

According to Ravenstein,migrants who move longer distances tend to choose

In the period from 1882-1907,the United States Congress passed exclusionary immigration laws designed to keep __________ out of the immigrant stream.

The intervention of what country in the civil war in Afghanistan caused great numbers of refugees to leave the country?

Australia prohibited immigration by non-whites until 1979.

What push factor compelled more than 50,000 Asians to leave Uganda in 1972?

Which of the following is not one of Ernst Ravenstein's laws of migration?

In 1995,the collapse of which of the following European countries produced the largest refugee crisis in Europe since the end of World War II?

A person who has a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race,religion,nationality,membership of a particular social group,or political opinion is officially a:

Irish migration to North America in the mid-1800s is an example of

The Afghan Taliban (Islamic fundamentalists)movement,spawned in Pakistan,created a counter migration of 2.5 million Afghanis to ________ when they came to power.

In 2004,Asylum seekers from __________ are automatically detained by the U.S.government.

During the first decades of the twentieth century,African American families in the United States migrated primarily to

What is the model which states that spatial interaction between places (e.g.migration)is directly related to the population size and inversely related to the distance between them?

Look at the map (figure 3.8). Choose three numbered migrations and describe the migrations by type,by who was involved,and the period and consequences of the migration.

Texas and California both experienced net domestic outmigration from 1990-2004.

European colonialism stimulated the movement of ___________ to the cities (islands of development)of Southeast Asia where they have become a significant minority population.