11/28 Migration Notes Quiz

In the United States there is a considerable migration flow of people over 60 years old headed to Florida, Arizona, or another Sunbelt locations from October to March. These people ____

• are ‘snowbirds’ fleeing northern winters.

• are fleeing poor economic conditions in Canada

• take new, low-pay industrial jobs to help with retirement expenses

• Are looking to go drink vampire blood so they live forever

Ravenstein’s Gravity Model of migration (Laws of Migration) states all of these except:

• Cities grow more from migration than by natural increase

• Families are less likely to make international moves than young adults.

• The majority of migrants move only a short distance.

• Rural residents are far less likely to migrate than their urban counterparts

Wilbur Zelinsky's Migration Transition Model states ___

• Ravenstein’s theory is wrong on all counts except international migrants are usually men.

• long migration distances are more likely than short.

• migration characteristics vary with the demographic transition.

• women are more likely to migrate than men.

Which of the following is most accurate about push/pull factors?

• Push factors generally involve positive local situations.

• Pull factors, such as a local civil war, cause people to leave.

• Push factors, such as economic opportunities, cause people to leave.

• Pull factors tend to be vague and are overly positive in perception of the new area.

African-Americans moved in The Great Migration from the South and headed to destinations like Detroit, Chicago or Cleveland. Along the way they settled in cities like St. Louis and Cincinnati where jobs were available – this is an examples of _____

• forced migration

• Step migration

• Net out migration

• Intervening opportunity

Which one of these is not a reason the National Origins Act of 1924 /Johnson-Reed Act was established?

• Immigrants had been responsible for WWI and had recently caused riots in the US.

• Organized labor felt cheap immigrant labor drove down wages

• Ethnocentric feelings and anti-Catholic & anti-Semitic feelings

• . Fear of communism & socialism and anti-European sentiment after WWI

The Chinese Exclusionary Act ___

• banned migrant housekeepers from China in order for US born citizens to find work as housekeepers.

• provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration.

• provided cheap migrant labor for the oil fields.

• Banned Chinese Finger traps after President John F. Kennedy got his fingers stuck in it.

Since World War II, internal migration streams in the United States have been moving generally from:

• west to east and north to south

• east to west and north to south

• west to east and south to north

• stayed completely static

Which is not true about counter-urbanization?

• Counter-urbanization is the move from rural areas to suburban areas by snowbirds as they age.

• Developed countries began experiencing counter- urbanization during the late twentieth century when rural areas were characterized by net in-migration.

• Counter-urbanization is net migration from urban to rural or suburban areas.

• Counter-urbanization is more likely in developed countries where telecommunications allows people to work farther away from the city center.

Which of the following is chain migration?

• A family member leaves the home country and establishes a foothold in a new country. The family worker then sends word back, more come

• The amount of people an area of land is able to support

• immigrant has an intended destination, but does not reach that destination, instead settles somewhere along the way

• You get a metal chain link for every person you convince to migrate