Migration: Interregional and Intraregional Migration

Interregional Migration

• Movement within a country• Movement cross-country• Permanent movement to a new region of the

same country

Transition

• Moving within the same country tends to be less traumatic for the migrant because the culture tends to be similar.– *culture meaning language, foods, broadcast,

music etc.

Migration: West/South

Migration of American

• American settlement has changed over the last 200+ years.

• People used to live on the East coast but have moved westward during the time of western expansion.

• In about the 1950’s people then began to move south. It was the introduction of the air-conditioner that prompted the movement.

Historical Interregional Migration-West

• People would migrate as farmland would dry up or become scarce.

• People were following the flow of economic opportunity.• The eventual invention of the steam engine, canal system of the great lakes.• Eventually this western centric movement slowed as there was an immigration resurgence after the Civil war.

Interregional Migration- South

• Rust Belt to Sun Belt• Economic Opportunity • In the South, job growth was more than twice

the national average. • African Americans experienced different

migration patterns.• In general, slowed down but with baby boom

generation retiring the pattern will continue.

Interregional Migration

• Migration is due to expansion of economic opportunity for the country.

• Additionally, Interregional migration occurs because people are moving from rural to urban areas.

Sparsely populated rural Brazil

Sao Paulo, population 11.25 million

Intraregional Migration

• Intraregional Migration- movement within a single region

• Tends to be movement from cities to suburbs

Three Step Intraregional Migration

• Rural to Urban• Urban to Suburban • Urban to Rural

Rural to Urban

• Industrialization brought people from the farm to the cities. (first MDC’s then LDC’s)

• Rural-Urban migrants seek economic opportunity.

• As agriculture decreased people moved into urban areas for industrial jobs.

Suburbanization

• Occurs in developed countries.• Not associated with job change• People are pulled for the ‘suburban’lifestyle. • More space, safety, schools etc.

Urban to Rural Areas

• Counterurbanization- migration away from urban areas into rural ones.

• Outlying suburban areas.• Again, lifestyle.• Though no one is really disconnected.• Employed in small businesses, services, recreation etc.