JESSE MEDRANO.

MIGRATION.

• Refers to the movement of people from one area to another .
• Physical and human factors influence where people settle.
• People don't not always stay in one location .
• Migration refers to a permanent move by people to. New location .

PUSH & PULL FACTORS .

• Push :oppression .
• Push :poverty .
• Pull:freedom
• pull: cultural ties .

JEWISH MIGRATIONS .

• Jews converted but the vast majority chose to leave .
• In 1290 England expelled its Jewish community .
• Jewish people were driven rom Israel after they rebelled against roman rule .
• Many Jews also migrated to the Ottoman Empire,where they settled in Istanbul or Palestine .

CUBANS FLEE COMMUNISM .

• Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba .
• Many Cubans fled on homemade boats in an attempt to reach the United States .
• Fled cubA for the safety of the United States .
• All newspaper and radio stations opposed to castors regime were either shut down or put under Government control .

THE FLIGHT OF AFGHAN REFUGEES .

• By the end of 2001there were 5 million afghan refuges living in Pakistan .
• United States declared war against terrorism .
• Some citizens of Afghanistan fled their country after the soviets invaded and a long civil war began .
• After the United States attacked Taliban forces in Afghanistan .

BURUNDI & RWANDA .

• Bitter fighting began in Central American between the Hutu
• Tutsi tribal people are taller than the Hutus .
• Millions of Rwandans fearing for their lives fled to neighboring Tanzania and Zaire where they lived in refugee camps
• Thousands died in these refugee camps from epidemic of diseases common to the camps such as cholera and dysentery .

GUEST WORKERS IN GERMANY .

• Guest workers .
• Most o

IRISH POTATO FAMINE .

DROUGHT IN THE SAHEL .

THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE .

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