Today's Class

Today in class we talked about migration patterns from country to country, what causes migration, and the effects of it. This lesson as always interested me and made me want to listen and pay attention. Many people from developing countries migrate to countries that are developed such as the US, Canada, the United Kingdom, etc. They migrate because of push and pull factors. Push factors are factors that push the migrants to leave the country because of bad things that are happening there. Pull factors are factors that pull migrants into a developed country because of better jobs, economic opportunity, or health care. Some push factors are war, bad health care, disease, torture, etc. Many migrants migrate to a bigger and better developed country.
They migrate from there homeland because it does not give them the resources to live a happy and healthy life. A refugee is a person who leaves their homeland because of discrimination, war, race, etc. "Net Migration Rate is the statistic that states whether more people are entering or leaving the country." The net migration rate for the US is that more people are entering than leaving because we are a developed country with money, resources, and technology. Canada's migration rate I believe would be more people are entering than leaving to because they are also a developed country and have the same tools as we do, they also get migrants first then some of them come to the US. For Mexico, I think more people are leaving because I do not think that Mexico is a developed country yet. All the people there cross the border for better opportunities in the US for them and their families. My ancestors are from Sicily, Italy. They came over to Ellis Island, stayed in New York and had my grandparents, then they came to Maryland, had their kids, and then came me.