Matthew Bishop

1/6/20



                                                        Introduction to Migration- Blog #19


Migration- The movement from one place to another place.
Emigration- Act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another one.
Immigration- The action of permanently of coming to a country to live there permanently.

 Highest U.S Immigration Flows by Country (1820s-2010s)

Ireland- 1 million people in 1850s.
Germany- 1.25 million people in 1880s.
U.K.- 600k people in 1880s.
Italy- 2 million people in 1900s.
Russia- 1.5 million people in 1900s.
Hungary- 600k people in 1900s.
Canada- 750k people in 1920s.
Mexico- 1.75 million people in 1990s.
Cuba- 100k people in 1960s.
Philippines- 400k people in 1980s.
China- 500k people in 2000s.

There are two types of migration.
1. International Migration- permanent move from one country to another.
-Voluntary
-Forced
2. Internal Movement- permanent move within the same country.
-Inter-regional
-Intra-regional
International Migration Patterns:
Approximately 9 percent of the world's people are international migrants.
Global pattern reflects migration tendencies from developing countries to developed countries.
Net Out-Migration: Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
Net In-Migration: North America, Europe, and Oceania.
U.S Immigration Patterns:
U.S has more foreign born residents than any other country: approximately 43 million as of 2010 and is growing by 1 million annually.
Three main eras of immigration in the U.S:
-Colonial settlement in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
-Mass European immigration in the late 19th and early twentieth centuries.
-Asian and Latin American integration in the late Twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.