This document discusses migration and provides analysis questions, directions for an activity, images, and definitions related to the causes and effects of migration. It addresses several types of migration including economic migration driven by opportunities or lack of opportunities, environmental migration due to natural disasters, refugee migration due to violence or persecution, and guest worker migration driven by temporary labor demands. Students are asked to analyze images of historical and current migration related to push and pull factors and categorize them. Causes of migration discussed include seeking economic opportunities, escaping unsafe conditions, and responding to environmental disasters or political conflicts.

1. Migration

2. Analyze the causes and effects
of migration in African history
(mainly forced migration).
Your attitude tells the world what you
expect from life Anonymous
In Spiral – If you could give advice
to a migrant coming to America,
what would it be?

3. Show Scene 7 of migration video
• Migration movie the chapter on the train

4. Close Reading Article
if not here, move to another day
• “San Pedro Sula Murder Capital of the
World”, if you have copies
• Otherwise, show scene 7 Train of Death in
the movie Wetback

5. Write
• If you could give advice to a
migrant coming to America,
what would it be? Explain.

6. Migration
Push and Pull Factors

7. Directions: Walk around the room and read each picture about
migration. Then tell which category of migration it fits into your
ESPN chart. Also label the type of image it is. See example:

8. Image 1
Year: 1900
Place: Italy
A family
leaves for
America, the
“Land of
Opportunity.”

9. Directions: Walk around the room and read each picture about
migration. Then tell which category of migration it fits into your
ESPN chart. Also label the type of image it is. See example:
#1, Italian family, Pull,
economic opportunity,

11. Image 2 Hurricane Katrina, 2005

12. Image 3
When: 1937
Place: USA, Oklahoma
Comment: Lack of water drove many “Okies” out to
new places with the promise of jobs.

13. Image 4 When: 1980
Place: Cuba
Mariel Boat Lift
Castro suddenly permitted
people to leave Cuba. He
opened the jails and thousands
left for Miami, including
Scarface.

14. Image 5
When: 1995
Place: Turkey
Comment: Guest
Workers arrive in
Germany for
work.

15. Image 6
When: 1880’s
Place: Nebraska
Comment: We left big city life to build a new life in the
Great Plains of America.

16. Image 7
When: Present Day
Where: Brasîlia, Capital of Brazil
Comments: Many migrants live in poor quality housing on
the city’s edge.

17. Image 8
We have to run from others who want to kill us. We are
refugees.

18. Our country is overrun by drugs and gangs. It is not
safe and there are no good jobs.
Image 9
When: Present Day
Place: Cuidad Juarez

19. Migrants will often risk their lives in hopes of economic
opportunities that will enable them to send money home
(remittances) to their family members who remain behind.
Economic Conditions –
Image 10

20. In Montserrat, a 1995 volcano made the southern half of the
island, including the capital city of Plymouth, uninhabitable.
People who remained migrated to the north or to the U.S.
Environmental Conditions
Image 11

21. East Asia
Image 12

22. In late 1800s and
early 1900s,
Chinese migrated
throughout
Southeast Asia to
work in trade,
commerce, and
finance.
Image 13

23. About 700,000 Jews
migrated to then-
Palestine between
1900 and 1948.
After 1948, when the
land was divided into
two states (Israel and
Palestine), 600,000
Palestinian Arabs fled
or were pushed out of
newly-designated
Israeli territories.
Image 14

24. Guest Workers
• Guest workers – migrants whom a country
allows in to fill a labor need, assuming the
workers will go “home” once the labor need
subsides.
- have short term work visas
- send remittances to home country

25. Rufugee
A person who flees across an international boundary because of a well-
founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion,
nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion.

26. Exit Ticket
Why do People Migrate?
(at least 3 reasons)

27. Two minute cleanup to “Help!”
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