Population and Migration.

Laws of Migration - Ravenstein

 

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1. For every flow of migration, there is a counterflow

   • Example: Group of people move to some place and someone else moves in to where that group was and so on.

   • Example: People move into downtown Dallas and people migrate out to suburbs..

2. Young adults (more male) are more likely to move than families over long distances

   • This is because they aren’t usually tied down with a family, and can make a decision and do it, they are more free, they don’t need other people’s consent.

3. Majority of people move more short distances than long distances

   • Short distances at a time - (step migration)

   • Example: People in Africa move from rural areas to urban areas, but before they do that they might want to go from farm everywhere to a village or town and then to the city, and say if their goal/final destination was to go to a better city; so, they would move again, but instead, they stay at the city they’re in, because pull factors there are stronger than the push factors (intervening opportunity)

4. Long distance movers usually choose to move to big cities

5. People living in urban areas are not as likely to move than people living in rural areas

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