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Chapter 3 Notes AP human geo

-immigration
•Haitians would try to leave their country on overcrowded boats
• they would come to the southern coast of florida
•it was very dangerous and many lost their lives doing it
•if they made it over without getting caught then they were able to stay if they made it to shore and could find their way to the home of friends and family and they can find employment and live under the radar of the Immigration and Naturalization Service
•the southwestern US and southern Florida attract millions of immigrants(both legal and illegal
•today, about 10 million illegal immigrants live in the United States
•illegal immigrants usually live with multiple families or adults in one apartment or home
•they work two or more jobs, live as cheaply as possible, and send home as much money as possible
•legal immigration was allowed from Mexico,Guatemala,El Salvador, Nicaragua, Columbia,Venezuela,Cuba,and Haiti(1981-2002)
•Haitians living in the US send home about $350 million annually
•the economies of many poorer countries depend in part on remittances sent to their citizens
•of the 34 million immigrants in the US today, 24 million are legal immigrants, the other 10 million are illegal
-migration
•movement is inherently geographical;movement of people changes the people as well as the way they see themselves in the world.
• movement also changes places-both the places the people left and the places where they go.
•human movement speeds the spread of ideas and innovations;it improves spatial interactions and transforms regions;it is often closely linked to environmental conditions
•movement of humans takes several forms
•mobility ranges from local to global-from the daily to once in a lifetime
•movement of people has been eased by an increase in mobility over the past decades
-3 types of movement
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