Migration Review

Which statement is incorrect?

• Refugees are forced to flee their country, often due to violence or persecution 
• Internally displaced persons are forced out of their home, but stay within their country's border
• IDPs and Refugees are both good examples of voluntary migration
• Voluntary migrants tend to be young single people, while refugees and IDPs include families and people of all ages

Which is an example of an economic pull factor?

• The city a person is moving to has a multitude of job opportunities as a result of new urban areas developing
• The city a person is moving to is offering asylum to those seeking religious freedom
• The city a person is moving to is currently dealing with an economic collapse, in which many jobs have been lost.
• The city a person is moving to is 

Which is NOT one of Ravenstein's Laws of Migration?

• Most migrants are families
• Most migrants only move a short distance
• Most migrants move to large urban areas when they move internationally
• Most migrants move for economic reasons

Which is an example of an environmental push factor?

• Farmers in the west in the 1930s had to move after a drought caused many to lose their farms 
• Violence between Hindus and Muslims caused many to migrate during the partition of India
• Unemployment in the 1970s in the US Rust Belt caused factory workers to move to find new jobs
• Opponents of Fidel Castro faced potential jailing or death causing them to flee Cuba when he seized power in 1959

Which is an example of a political intervening obstacle?

• A migrant does not have enough money to reach their final destination
• A migrant cannot physically cross a desert or mountain range that separates them from their destination
• A migrant gets married to someone who lives along their migration route and stays in that person's community
• A migrant cannot get a visa needed to enter the country they are tying to go to

The permanent or semi-permanent relocation of people from one place to another is known as

• Migration
• Immigration
• Emigration
• Relocation Diffusion

Which would be an example of an IDP?

• Jews fled Nazi Germany during the 1930s and 1940s to seek safety in other countries
• Thousands of Haitians relocated to different countries after the earthquakes in 2010
• Thousands of Louisianans left to neighboring states after Hurricane Katrina 
• The Lost Boys of Sudan left Sudan and ended up in a refugee camp in Kenya

When people move to communities that their friends or family previously migrated to, this is known as

• chain migration
• step migration
• ethnic enclaves
• voluntary migration

This image depicts

• Interregional migration
• Intraregional migration
• Forced migration
• Step migration

Which are examples of push factors? (More than one correct answer)

• The place a migrant is leaving is just had a new political party come into power that they directly oppose.

• The place a migrant is leaving experienced a massive natural disaster.

• The place a migrant is going to is facing an economic collapse.

• The place a migrant is leaving has religious tolerance.