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The Brazilian government encouraged interregional migration by

A) making Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo more attractive.
B) dictating optimal locations for factories.
C) clearing the rain forest for agricultural activities in the interior.
D) moving the capital to Brasilia.
E) industrial development on the Atlantic coast.

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The migration transition model predicts that international migration reaches a peak at ________ of the demographic transition.

A) stage 1
B) stage 2
C) stage 3
D) stage 4
E) stage 5

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If your ancestors migrated to the United States during the 1840s and 1850s, barring any other evidence, you might strongly suspect that they originated in

The largest numbers of Europeans migrated to the United States primarily because of

A permanent move to a new location is

Norwegians were most likely to migrate to the United States

List the major push and pull factors in migration and invent or recall your own, original, examples of each.

The ability to move from one location to another, either temporarily or permanently, is

The U.S. center of population has moved steadily to the

The most important pull factor for migrants to North America today is

In recent decades, the most important type of internal migration within the United States is from urban to suburban areas.

A boy migrated from Honduras through Guatemala and Mexico, then entered the United States without immigration documents, because members of his ethnic group were being targeted for torture or assassination in his home country. Although the U.S. government does not grant the boy refugee status, his case is an example of international and ________ migration.

Assess how the city or community that you now live in correlates, or fails to correlate, to the major intraregional and interregional migration patterns within the United States in recent years. What factors or trends are you considering when making that appraisal?

The three major kinds of push factors are political, economic, and environmental.

Which is a current intraregional migration trend in the United States?

Scrutinize maps of Asia in the textbook. Considering country locations, as well as other environmental factors, list at least five countries that would you classify as having the greatest number of intervening obstacles to international migration? Why? List at five countries that you would classify as having lower numbers of intervening obstacles.

An example of ________ is the migration of doctors and engineers to the United States after they have received years of government-financed schooling and training in Colombia.

Recent immigrants to the United States

A democratic government that nevertheless persecutes and imprisons minorities is a clear example of a pull factor.

Analyze a world map, with special attention to physical features, and hypothesize as to why African migrants may experience greater difficulty in reaching the United States than South American migrants. Now consider the great number of Asian migrants reaching the United States. What factors can you propose to explain why Asian migrants can overcome intervening obstacles while Africans seemingly cannot?