Exam 3: Migration

A fence guards the entire U.S.-Mexico border.

The leading cause for migration to the United States and Canada has been

The most common environmental push factor is too much or too little water.

The three major kinds of push factors are political,economic,and environmental.

Brain drain is

Describe changes in the movement of the U.S.center of population and reasons for those changes.

Interregional migration in the U.S.has increased in the early twenty-first century.

Migration is a

When did the gender pattern of migrants to the United States switch from more men than women to more women than men?

All other things being equal,the farther away a place is,the less likely it is a destination for migration.

What source region dominated migration to the United States in the second part of the twentieth century?

Unrestricted immigration to the United States was first limited by

Ravenstein found that most migrants generally travel

The most important type of internal migration within the United States is from urban to suburban.

Describe suburbanization in more developed countries.

Which of the following events would be considered a migration pull factor?

What source region dominated migration to the United States in the nineteenth century?

European countries continue guest worker programs today.

Intraregional migration in the United States has slowed recently because of

The U.S.center of population has moved steadily to the