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The Political Geography of Migration

I. Introduction

A. What is Geography?

1. Where?
2. Why there?
3. Why do we care?

B. What is Political Geography? mgpg.htm

C. Migration and Political Geography

1. not well studied
2. surprising
3. contemporary problem - 5th phase of PG

E. Some Definitions mgdef.htm

F. Overview of Presentation

II. The Study of Migration

A. Ravenstein's Principles/Neoclassical mgraven.htm

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 mg2type.htm

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. mgeurus.htm
(2) 4 waves of U.S. immigration

• mgusimm.htm
• http://www.nationalsecurity.org/heritage/issues96/immig_4.gif
• http://www.nationalsecurity.org/heritage/issues96/immig_2.gif
• http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/textonly/stats/299.html
• http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/textonly/stats/308.html

b. U.S. Immigration Laws - 1986

(1) opposition to immigration
http://www.nationalsecurity.org/heritage/issues96/immig_3.gif
(2) laws mguslaw.htm

c. Benefits and Costs

• http://www.cato.org/dailys/6-25-97.html

B. Migration Within a Country

C. Illegal (voluntary) Migration

1. U.S.

a. 1986 Immigration Law
b. Numbers http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/textonly/stats/illegalalien/index.html#Table1

c. Where and Why There?

• http://www.nationalsecurity.org/heritage/issues96/immig_8.gif
  d. Benefits and Costs
  e. Propositions 178

2. Other

a. Where?
b. Why there?
c. Why do we care?

V. Forced Migration

A. Slavery mgslave.htm

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 mgref#.htm
b. Where they're from
c. Where they go

3. Repatriations

a. UN Principle of nonrefoulement

(1) definition mgrefrt.htm
(2) problems
(3) discouraging refugees mgdiscg.htm

b Forced Repatriations mgrepat.htm

c. Recent Repatriations

C. Internally Displaced Persons

1. Definition mgidp.htm
2. Where and How Many

D. Environmental refugees

1. Where?
2. Why there?
3. Why do we care?