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WHY DO PEOPLE MIGRATE?
FAST FIVE ON THE WIPE BOARDS
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1. STATE A SPECIFIC ENVIRONMENTAL PUSH FACTOR
2. WHAT’S THE TOP REASON PEOPLE MIGRATE?
3. WHAT’S AN IDP?
4. DUE TO TREMENDOUS ECONOMIC GROWTH IN
WHAT COUNTRY VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS USUALLY
IMMIGRATE THERE. NAME THE COUNTRY.
• WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A REFUGEE AND
AN ASYLUM SEEKER
• BONUS – WHO JUST RECEIVED THE GREEN LIGHT TO
BE GRANTED ASYLUM IN THE UNITED STATES? WHAT
IS HIS COUNTRY OF ORIGIN – ANSWER 1 OR BOTH
VOCABULARY 
LEE & RAVENSTEIN
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PUSH/PULL – ECONOMIC,
POLITICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL,
CULTURAL
MOST PEOPLE MIGRATE FOR
ECONOMIC REASONS
POLITICAL: SLAVERY, UNITED
NATIONS HIGH COMMISSION ON
REGUGEES RECOGNIZES 3
GROUPS OF FORCED POLITICAL
MIGRATION:
1. REFUGEE: FORCE TO MIGRATE
TO ANOTHER COUNTRY DUE TO
VARIOUS REASONS
2. INTERNALLY DISPLACED
PERSON: FORCED TO MIGRATE
FOR SAME AS #1 BUT HASN’T
CROSSED AN INT’L BORDER
3. ASYLUM SEEKER: MIGRATED
INTERNATIONALLY IN THE HOPES
OF BEING RECOGNIZED AS A
REFUGEE
ECONOMIC PUSH & PULL FACTORS
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US & CANADA MAJOR
DESTINATIONS FOR ECO
MIGRANTS
IRELAND: NET OUT
MIGRATION MOST OF 20TH
BUT 1990’S NET IN
MIGRATION DUE TO ECO
PROSPERITY BUT…2008
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
REFUGEES & ECONOMIC
MIGRANTS DUE TO HOW THEY
ARE TREATED
ECO: NOT ADMITTED UNLESS
HAVE UNIQUE SKILL, CLOSE
RELATIVE & REFUGEES
SPECIAL PRIORITY
TEMPORARY/GUEST WORKERS
– ANOTHER WAY TO MAKE
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MIGRANT WORKERS: 14 OF
16 COUNTRIES W/ HIGHEST
PER CAPITA INOME ARE IN N
& W EUROPE
GUEST WORKERS FROM S&E
EURO TO N&W EURO
HISTORICALLY BUT THEN
TURKEY & N. AFRICA &
TODAY E. EUROPE,
POLAND/ROMANIA
FOREIGN BORN POPULATION
IN EUROPE ONLY ½ OF U.S.
ASIA SOURCE & DESTINATION
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MOST MIGRANTS FROM SE
CHINA & LIVING IN SE ASIA,
US, EUROPE
ECONOMY HAS BEEN PULL FOR
OTHERS FROM SE ASIA TO
CHINA SUCH AS VIETNAM,
CAMBODIA, THAILAND
SW ASIA – DRILL BABY DRILL
(OIL) IS HUGE PULL FOR MANY
IN SE ASIA- PHILIPPINES, S.
ASIA-INDIA, PAKISTAN, ALSO
EGYPT & YEMEN
PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT
DEEMS ONLY ISRAEL & OMAN
FRIENDLY TO THEIR PEOPLE
OTHER SW ASIAN COUNTRIES
DON’T TREAT FILIPINOS WELL
WHAT ARE THE FEARS OF OIL
PRODUCING COUNTRIES IN
TERMS OF MASSIVE
IMMIGRATION?
POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS UNREST
& ABANDONMENT OF ISLAMIC
TRADITION, CULTURE & VALUES
ASEAN STATES
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Brunei,
Malaysia
Cambodia
Viet Nam
Philippines
Indonesia
Myanmar
Lao
Singapore
Thailand