I. Introduction

A. What is Geography?

1. Where?

2. Why there?

3. Why do we care?

B. What is Political Geography?

C. Migration and Political Geography

1. not well studied

2. surprising

3. contemporary problem - 5th phase of PG

E. Some Definitions

F. Overview of Presentation

II. The Study of Migration

A. Ravenstein's Principles/Neoclassical

1. Why people migrate: Push and Pull Factors

2. Problems with a push-pull model

B. Migration Patterns/Prior Links

1. Guest workers

2. Channelized migration

3. Chain migration

4. Brain Drain

C. Both Approaches Useful in the Study of Migration

III. Two Major Types of Migration

A. Different Approaches to Teaching Migration

B. Two Major Types

1. Voluntary Migration

2. Forced Migration

IV. Voluntary Migration

A. Legal Voluntary Migration

1. International Labor Flows/Guest Workers

a. Where?

b. Why there?

c. Why do we care?

2. U.S. Legal Immigration

a. History (from where and numbers)

(1) European Migration to the U.S.

(2) 4 waves of U.S. immigration

b. U.S. Immigration Laws - 1986

(1) opposition to immigration

(2) laws

c. Benefits and Costs

B. Migration Within a Country

C. Illegal (voluntary) Migration

1. U.S.

a. 1986 Immigration Law

b. Numbers

c. Where and Why There?

d. Benefits and Costs

(Propositions 108???)

2. Other

a. Where?

b. Why there?

c. Why do we care?

V. Forced Migration

A. Slavery

1. Where?

2. Why there?

3. Why do we care?

B. Refugees

1. Definitions

a. Refugees

b. Problems with definition

2. Major Refugee Flows

a. Numbers

b. Where they're from

c. Where they go

3. Repatriations

a. UN Principle of nonrefoulement

(1) definition

(2) problems

(3) discouraging refugees

b Forced Repatriations

c. Recent Repatriations

C. Internally Displaced Persons

1. Definition

2. Where and How Many

D. Environmental refugees

1. Where?

2. Why there?

3. Why do we care?