1. Three Waves of Immigrants
1.1. 1st Wave
1.1.1. 2nd Wave
1.1.1.1. 3rd Wave
1.1.1.2. Between 1970 and 2003
1.1.1.3. Still going on today
1.1.1.4. Millions of people from Latin America and Asia are moving to America.
1.1.2. Late 1800s
1.1.3. Mostly form eastern and southern Europe.
1.1.4. Refugees fleeing war or persecution because of their religious beliefs.
1.2. The Founding of The United States.
1.3. Most People Came from Europe.
1.4. Most of them were people who were trying to escape poverty and hunger,they mostly became farmers.
2. Types of Push Factors
2.1. Political Push Factors
2.1.1. Environmental Push Factors
2.1.1.1. Economic Push Factors
2.1.1.2. Usually when the GDP is low and people want a brighter future they move to another country.
2.1.2. Changes in the environment,like long term droughts can cause people to emigrate.
2.1.3. Changes in the environment can be the result of human activity as well
2.2. War Can Create Refugees who are people wanting to leave a country because of the war going on there or in fear of the leaders.
3. Types of Pull Factors
3.1. Family
3.1.1. Education
3.1.1.1. Quality of Life
3.1.1.2. Some people migrate to improve the quality of their lives.
3.1.1.3. A better life usually starts with a better job and a sense of safety.
3.1.2. Families migrate so that their children will have a better and brighter education.
3.2. Sometimes only one person immigrates to a new country,once they are more successful they send for their families to also come to that country.
4. Global Connections
4.1. Why Regions "Push" More Migrants Than They "Pull"
4.1.1. Why Regions "Pull" More Migrants Than They "Push"
4.1.1.1. Migration Changing The Places People Leaves and Come To
4.1.1.2. If too many people leave a place it may become abandoned.
4.1.1.3. If too many people move to a place it can become overpopulated or overcrowded.
4.1.2. If a region is developed it is more likely that people will move to that area.
4.1.3. People may also move to a region if it is close to their homeland.
4.2. Poverty and Conflict usually are the main reasons people flee countries.
5. Push Factors
5.1. Something that encourages someone to move to a new place.
5.2. Government,Economy,Droughts,Famine,
6. Pull Factors
6.1. Something that encourages people to move to an area.
6.2. Good Economy,Job Opportunities
7. How Immigration Affects The U.S
7.1. Economical
7.1.1. Cultural
7.1.1.1. Social
7.1.1.1.1. Political
7.1.1.1.2. Refugees work hard to bring democracy to their homeland.
7.1.1.2. Sometimes when people emigrate they leave their families behind and sometimes emigrants never return to their homeland.
7.1.2. Introduce Americans to different ways of life from across the world.
7.1.3. It can also lead to conflict because of the blend of different cultures.
7.2. Jobs
7.2.1. Taxes
7.2.1.1. Brain Gain/Drain
7.2.1.2. When people leave their homeland loses their skills or talents.
7.2.1.3. When new people immigrate to a country, that country gains their skills and talents.
7.2.2. They work to pay their taxes to support public schools libraries and health clinics
7.3. Immigrants help a lot with labor and making a progression in the United States economy.
7.4. Native born Americans complain that immigrants are taking their jobs and that they have to compete with them for work.
8. Migration
8.1. Immigration
8.1.1. Emigration
8.1.1.1. Voluntary Migration
8.1.1.1.1. Involuntary Migration
8.1.1.1.2. The transatlantic slave trade was one such example of involuntary migration.
8.1.1.1.3. Involuntary migration is also known as forced migration because the people involved are forced to migrate, often under threat of death or violence.
8.1.1.2. Voluntary migration is when people choose to migrate of their own free will.
8.1.2. When someone leaves a country.