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Human Migration: Causes and Patterns — Homework

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Human Migration: Causes and Patterns — Homework

For each scenario, name at least one push factor, one pull factor, and classify the migration on both scales (internal/international and voluntary/forced).

  1. 1.A family in rural Guatemala moves to Guatemala City after repeated crop failures, hoping to find factory work. Give one push and one pull factor.
  2. 2.Classify the Guatemala City scenario above as internal or international, and as voluntary or forced.
  3. 3.A journalist flees their home country after being threatened for their reporting, crossing into a neighboring country. Classify this migration on both scales and name the legal term for this person.
  4. 4.Explain why the distinction between a refugee and an economic migrant matters for how a receiving country might respond.
  5. 5.Describe a migration -- in your own family history, or one you have learned about -- and identify its push factors, pull factors, and classification.
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