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Migration Today 2002 = 175 million worldwide living outside country of birth Characteristics Many poor, uneducated, unskilled Many also highly educated and skilled Enterprising, working age looking for opportunity All Americans are ultimately immigrants, except those who are full-blooded Native Americans. See caption (U.S. Senator), pg 209. International Migration Emigration Brain Drain on “source countries”. Brain drain is when the working age and usually educated people leave their home country to go to another one. Importance of remittances Mexico = 3rd largest source of foreign exchange Canada 18.4 percent population foreign born (more than U.S.) 94 percent of immigrants live in metro areas Migration to the U.S. U.S. Largest migration flow worldwide (last 150 yrs) was from Europe to the U.S. See Ellis Island, etc. Also, see implications in pie chart (next slide). 10% U.S. population foreign born Immigration quotas restrict immigration Some implications: Hispanics as proportion of U.S. population has increased, displacing blacks as minorities (Census 2000). Migration Today Refugees 1951 Geneva convention – someone with a well-founded fear of being persecuted in his/her country of origin due to race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion. See map, pg 201. They have special rights Asylum – signatories are obligated to grant safety New Controversies Additional costs for public services? Importing poverty? Local costs of immigration California, Arizona, etc “Melting pot” or “cultural mosaic”? * Figure: 5-23 Title: European migration in the nineteenth century. Caption: The nineteenth century saw the greatest migrations of Europeans. Europeans regarded the Western Hemisphere as a New World open to European settlement, and their massive migrations forever changed hemispheric demographics. Keywords: populations, migrations, immigration, immigrants, emigration, emigrants Introduction to GeographyP