Today in class we talked about the net migration rate and push/pull factors that can drive people to come and leave countries. Here are some notes below.
- Net Migration Rate- The difference between the number of person's entering and leaving a country during a year
- An excess of persons entering the country in net immigration
- It is written as a positive number
- An example: Canada has 5.65 migrants per 1000 population, United States:2.45(it was 3.62 in 2016)
- An excess of people leaving the country is emigration
- It is written as a negative number
- Mexico has -1.68 migrants per 1000 population
- -3.61 two years ago, -3.11 last year
Why do People Migrate? Here are some push and pull factors
- Push forces
- Civil war
- environmental degradation
- unemployment or underemployment
- religious or ethnic persecution
- Pull forces
- Better economic opportunities
- better health services
- religious freedom
- political freedom
All in all today's class went really well and we also reviewed our tests which was good and turns out almost all of the ones I got wrong I originally had the right answer but second guessed myself and changed the answer.
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