A migration is
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A journey
Of a population
From an old home
To a new home
Questions about migrations
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Questions about the journey
Questions about the migrants
Questions about the old home
Questions about the new home
Questions about the journey
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What was the migration route?
What was the migration journey like?
What were the means of migration?
What were the obstacles to migration?
Questions about the migrants
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Who were the migrants?
Who did not migrate? Why not?
How did migration change the migrants?
How did the migration change the people
who did not migrate?
Questions about the old home
• What old homes did the migrants leave?
– Out-migration places: neighborhoods,
cities, counties, regions, states, countries
• What push forces caused them to leave
the old home?
• How did the migration change the old
home?
Questions about the new home
• What new homes did migrants choose?
– In-migration places: neighborhoods, cities,
counties, regions, states, countries
• What pull forces caused them to choose
those new homes?
• How did the migration change the new
home?
Big ideas
• Migrations happen for reasons - CAUSES
– Push forces in the old home, pull forces in the
new home, and means of migration
• Migrations change people - EFFECTS
– People change when they migrate
– People change when others around them
migrate
• Migrations change places - EFFECTS
– An old home changes when migrants leave
– A new home changes when migrants arrive