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Migration- 2 categories

  • International Migration- permanent move from one country to another
  • Internal Migration- permanent move within the same country 
  • Sub category of Internal-Interregional- movement from one region to another
  • Intraregional- movement between similar regions
  • Approximately 9 percent of the world’s people are international migrants
  • Global pattern reflects migration tendencies from developing countries to developed countries
  • U.S has more foreign-born residents than any other country: approx 43 mil
    There are multiple trends where people are moving from less developed places into more developed countries. Right now there is a lot of Mexicans and Asians moving into the United States. For Internal migration people are moving from urban places to the suburbs and people are moving from rural areas to suburbs or urban.

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