1 define migration
The permanent relocation of residential place.
2 explain the effects migrations have had on both geography and history
It has contributed to the evolution and development of separate cultures, to the diffusion of cultures by interchange and communication, and the complex mix of people and cultures found in different regions of the world today.
3 understand that migration occurs at different scales
Migration can occur as intercontinental or interregional.
4 explain why people change their residential location
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Distance decay and intervening opportunity are also related topics and these concepts state that individuals will choose a closer location over a location further away if they are both equal in other aspects. Step migration is a concept that describes those who migrate in steps such as from a farm to a small city and then to a big city. Chain migration is a concept that says that people are more likely to move somewhere where they already have connections. Channelized migration and migration fields have to do with chain migration and migration fields are areas where people move from to a certain city. Channelized migration is when there is a reoccurring them of people moving in similar patterns.
8 describe the geography of dislocation: refugee patterns and processes in the world today
The IOM is working with 155 member states to take refugees and relocate them to places where they can be properly worked with to sustain a better life. Africa, Europe, Southwest Asia and Southeast Asia all have a lot of problems and the IOM works extremely hard to get peole out of these places and out to better places.
Classify these migrations by TYPE and decide whether the move was innovative or