1. By Jacqueline Romo
UMUC
EDTP600
10.07.12
Unit 4: Building America:
Migrants in the United States
Part 1: Understanding Migration and Movement

2. Everyone Migrates!
Adults – Children – Families – Individuals
Local
> House to house (same town)
> City to city (same state)
National
> State to state (same
country)
International
> One country to another
> Crossing borders

3. Why are people on the move?
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• Opportunity • Economic
– New/more jobs – Economic decline, no
– Better lifestyle jobs to be found
• Work – Industry moves out of
– New job the area
– Work transfer • Political Negative
• Family – Conflict
– Wife got a new job • Forced migration
– Mom & dad are – Refugees
moving – Slavery
– Going to live with – Human trafficking
grandparents

4. Getting There…
How do people get where What happens when they
they are going? get there?
• Cars • New house, schools,
friends
• Planes
• New surroundings
• Trains
• New culture
• Bus
• With documentation
• Walking
• Without documentation

5. Personal Migrations: Two Case Studies
After reading Julie’s Julie’s Story
story and listening Julie was born in 1986 in Maryland.
to Edmund’s story,
in groups of 5 work When she was 12 she moved from
to identify: her first home into a bigger house
•What types of down the street because her family
migration did each started to make more money. Then
undertake? when she was 18 she left her
•Who was involved hometown and moved to another
in these migrations
(was it just Julie and
town in Maryland to go to college.
Edmund?) When Julie was 22 she moved all the
•What might have way to England to continue her
motivated Julie and education and to be with her
Edmund to migrate husband who is from England.
in each instance?
Edmund’s Story
•Were they
involved in each http://www.redcross.org.uk/What-
decision to we-do/Refugee-services/Refugees-
migrate? true-stories/Video-diaries