Migration Practice

Which of the following would be an example of a economic push factor?

• High unemployment rates in Cairo, Egypt

• Lots of job opportunities in Great Britain.

• Discrimination against non-Christian religions

• Lack of social activities.

Which of the following would be an example of a social push factor?

• The government of Russia habitually arrests people for criticizing the leaders of the country.

• The hourly wage is not livable.

• A practicing catholic is 75 miles from the nearest Catholic church.

• Louisiana has endured three major hurricanes this year.

Which of the following is a political push factor?

• The president is elected by a democratic vote every 4 years.

• While Iran has a democratically elected president, this person must be approved by the Ayatollah, a religious leader with unlimited political power.

• There are constitutionally protected freedoms within this country.

• The winters often fall below 0 degrees.

Which of the following is an example of an environmental push factor?

• The weather maintains an average temperature of 75 degrees year-round.

• The government has several laws protecting the environment

• The government has several laws that allow companies to dump chemical waste in waterways.

• Earthquakes cause massive tsunamis that destroy coastal regions.

A student who lives in Minneapolis chooses to spend her spring break in Florida rather than in Jamaica because Florida is closer and the plane fare is cheaper. This type of decision-making best illustrates the concept of

• human capital

• time space compression

• intervening opportunities

• the rank size rule

• central place theory

There has been an increase in asylum seekers from Syria to the European Union in recent years. Which of the following best describes the reason for this migration?

• A large rural-to-urban population shift within Syria

• A continuing rise in employment for asylum seekers in the European Union.

• A continuing issue of conflict and political unrest within Syria

• The tightening of asylum policies by the European Union

• The tightening of guest-worker policies in the European Union

The nineteenth-century emigration of a large number of Swedes from a particular region of Sweden to Istanti County, Minnesota, as a result of communications from friends and relatives who preceded them there is an example of:

• brain drain

• chain migration

• net migration

• internal migration

• counterurbanization

A refugee enters the European Union in Italy and is temporarily housed in Germany. He is the granted asylum and is permanently settled in Sweden. Which of the following types of migration is described?

• Chain migration

• Guest worker migration

• Internally displaced person

• Step migration across Europe

• A rural-to-urban migration

Which best summarizes the migration process represented by the diagram?

• With European colonization and migration, positive aspects of European culture spread across the globe in spite of obstacels.

• In the process known as step migration, migrants move from rural to urban areas through a series of smaller moves, or steps.

• Each migration produces a counter migration of people returning to their country of origin.

• The gravity model predicts that most migrants will move to the closest metropolitan area in search of economic opportunities

• Migrants leave their homelands because of push factors and move to places with pull factors, but they often face barriers.

Which statement best summarizes Zelinsky's model of migration in relation to the Demographic Transition Model (DTM)?

• High unemployment in countries in stages 4 and 5 pushes migrants to stage 2 and 3 countries in search of economic opportunity.

• Overcrowding in countries in stages 2 and 3 pushes migrants to stage 4 and 5 countries in search of economic opportunities.

• Overcrowding in countries in stage 4 and 5 pushes migrants to stage 2 and 3 countries in search of economic opportunity.

• A gender imbalance in countries in stages 4 and 5 pushes migrants to stage 2 and 3 countries to find mates and start families.

• Overcrowding in stage 4 and 5 pushes migrants to stage 2 countries in a counter migration as large as the original migration.