Checking Test

Yesterday in class we turned in our exam essays. After we did that we went over the migration test so that we could you it to study from for the exam on Wednesday. I got some of the matching definitions wrong which I thought that I did good on when taking the test but I just wasn't reading it correctly. I also got some of the multiple choice questions wrong but some of the ones that I got wrong on that I wasn't too confident about anyway but the other ones I just think that I didn't read them correctly. But I put in the right answers when reviewing and I will use the test to study for the exam because migration will be on the exam. After we did that we talked a little more about what we need for the exam and what will be on the exam and Mr. Schick showed us the exam and it is 19 pages long.

Exam Essay

Today in class we worked on our exam essay. If you had already finished your essay you could review it with someone who was finished too. I was basically done mine I just needed to check myself again and add a few things. If you weren't finished you were able to work on it in class. I chose option A for my essay which was about choosing three different nations and talking about their struggles due to population and migration, and then you talk about what the leader of the nation should do to prevent these struggles.

Test on Migration

Today in class we took a test on Migration. The test was only about 28 questions. The first part of the test was matching definitions to the term. I thought that this was the easiest part of the test, because to do this you really just needed to use common sense and I reviewed the terms right before the test. For the second part of the test it was multiple choice which was relatively easy, although for some I had no idea so I just had to choose what made most sense to me. Overall the test went pretty well, I was able to finish within a reasonable amount of time, and I finished in enough time to be able to do my blog. So we are also able to work on the essay that we are doing for the exam that we have next week and I chose the option A which was to pick three different nations from three different parts of the world and talk about the challenges that they face regarding to population and migration. I started working on it the other night but I still need to do a little more research before I start to write it. The nations that I am thinking about doing right now are Australia, Cuba, and United States but I will see what research I get and then I will definitely know what three nations I am doing.

Immigration

Today in class we talked about the essay that we have to write for the exam and how it is due in the beginning of class on Friday and no later we also took notes, some of the notes that we took were...

• Immigration concerns in Europe 
• Population growth in Europe fueled by immigration from other regions of the world, a trend disliked by many Europeans
• Biggest fear is that the host country's culture will be lost, because immigration:
• adhere to different religions 
• speak different languages
• practice different food and other cultural habits 
• Hostility to immigrants has become a central plank of some political parties on many European countries 
• Immigrants blamed for crime, unemployment rates, and high welfare costs

• Characteristics of Migrants
• Ravenstein noted:
• Most long-distance migrants are male
• Most long-distance migrants are adult individuals rather than families with children 
• Most long-distance migrants are young adults seeking work rather than children or elderly people

Why do Migrants face Challenges?

Today in class we got a packet "Why Do Migrants Face Challenges?" and some of the notes that I took were....

• A migrant needs a passport to legally emigrate from a country and a visa to legally immigrate to a new country 
• Most countries have adopted selective immigration policies that admit some types of immigrants but not others 
• Two reasons that visas aren't granted is for specific employment placement and family reunification 
• The U.N. classifies four types of immigration policies:
1. maintain the current level of immigration
2. increase the level
3. reduce the level
4. no policy, Similarity, emigration policies are identified by the same four classes
• Unauthorized immigrants- Immigrate illegally
• Undocumented immigrant- some of the groups that advocate for more right s for these individuals 
• Illegal alien- some of the groups that favor tougher restrictions and enforcement of immigration laws

"Changing U.S. Immigration"

Notes:

• United States is inhabited overwhelmingly by direct descendants immigrants 
• the United States has the three main eras of immigration:

1. Colonial settlement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
2. Mass European immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries 
3. Asian and Latin American immigration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries

• Immigration to the American colonies and the newly independent United States came from two principal places:
• Europe 
• Sub-Saharan Africa 
• Migration from Europe to the U.S. peaked at several points during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
• 1840s and 1850s: Ireland and Germany 
• !870s: Ireland and Germany
• 1880s: Scandinavia
• 1905- 1914: Southern and Eastern Europe 
• Germany has sent the largest number of immigrants to the United States, 7.2 million
• Other European sources include Italy 5.4 million; the United Kingdom, 5.3 million; Ireland, 4.8 million; and Russia and the former Soviet Union, 4.1 million
• During the Great Depression and World War II immigration to the United States dropped sharply
• The reason for immigration is because of Rapid population growth which has limited prospects for economic advancement at home
• Europeans left because of when their countries entered stage 2 of the demographic transition in the nineteenth century
• Latin America and Asian began to leave in large groups in recent years after their countries entered stage 2
• People migrate to the United States because of poor condition at home and immigrants were lured by economic opportunity and social advancement in the United States 
• Immigration has caused the United States to no longer be a sparsely settled and an economically booming country

Podcast

Today in class we continued listening to a podcast about migration. Some of the notes that I took were...

• The reason that the U.S. turned away a boat full of Jews was because they didn't go through the process to get into the U.S. 
• Germany got bigger
• All of the Jews on the boat were found and put into death camps
• This was 1939
• non reforma(not returning)
• 1951 United States meeting
• Asylum
• Persecution
• race
• nationality
• religion
• political beliefs 
• social group
• domestic violence(under Obama)
• gang violence?
• terrorism?