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• Migration between regions within the United
States.
• Migration between regions in other countries.
• Migration within one region.

Migration Between Regions Within the
United States
• Colonial Settlement: population concentration along Atlantic coast. Why?
• Intervening obstacles
(mountains, thick forests, and hostile Indians)

• Early Settlement in the
Interior: transportation improvement opened up settlement. How?
• Erie Canal linked NYC to
Great Lakes. Allowed farmers to move west.
Migration
Between Regions
Within the United
States

Migration Between Regions Within the
United States
• Migration to California:
Gold Rush & unsuitable farm land in the great plains rapidly sped the way for the population center to shift west.

Migration Between Regions Within the
United States
• Settlement of the Great
Plains: rate slowed westward b/c European migration
• Land grants and technological improvements to farm
Great Plains

Migration Between
Regions Within the
United States
• Recent growth of the
South: pop moved 250 miles west (1940 to
2000). Moved southward 75 mi. Why?
• Jobs and climate (area known = Sunbelt)

Migration Between Regions in Other
Countries
• Russia: built mines and factories near raw materials.
• Far North: 45% of land
(< 2% pop) solution?
• Forced migration
• Collapse of USSR: ended government sponsored
“optimal locations” for factories.

• New Capital: Brazil moved capital 600 miles to the interior. Why?

• Indonesia: incentives to move from Java (2/3 pop) to other islands.
• One-way air ticket, 5 acres, building material, seeds, and pesticides, and a year worth of rice.

• Follow the $$$: former colonies and poorer
European countries migrated North and West.

• Gov. Permits: limit migration within to protect local economies and ethnic identity.

Migration Within
One Region
• Urbanization Trend
• MDC: ¾ urban population
• LDC: since 1982 same trend is happening
(23% to 42% in Asia)

Migration from urban to Suburban
Areas
• MDC: intraregional migration from cities to suburbs (2:1 ratio)
• Pull factor: NOT JOBS but
WHAT?
• Bigger, access, & more privacy

Migration from Urban to Rural Areas
• Counterurbanization :
MDC experienced more people moving to rural than moving to urban.
WHY?
• Rat race versus the farm
• What makes it possible?
• Modern communications & transportation

Gentrification : the restoration of run-down urban areas by the middle class (resulting in the displacement of low-income residents).