review day

We had our exam review day today. We went over our test, I got 93%. Pretty proud. Today has been a pretty good day, dress down day, only 40-minute classes. its pretty chill and i needed a day like this. Still got practice which sucks but can't always get what you want. I feel good about the human geo exam, the only one im worried about is English. Thats my worse class, so fingers crossed. Human geo has been a fun class, i really like Mr. Schick and im glad i have him next year. The year has ended well, i hope so do exams

essay review day

today we got with a partner and reviewed our essay's for our midterm exams. I am really proud of mine and feel I will do good. I chose option B and answered everything he asked. Exams are starting to grow on me and I'm starting to get anxious and not in a good way. I think the Human Geography part will go well for me, but you never know. Gotta love suspense. I read Carson's essay and it was really good. She doesn't think she'll do well but I think she will. I hope she does and I hope I do too. Today was good, I gave my friend their Christmas present.

migration test

today we took our unit test, and to be honest, it was not as hard as I thought. Plus I didn't study which is nice to feel good about a test when you didn't study. I've started working on our midterm exam essay. Going pretty good. I talked with Mr. Schick today about the question I choose and he said I picked the hardest one, so I'm thinking about changing that. Besides that today was pretty good. We had mass today, but it was mass with a little twist. The chorus sang so stuff, I got to make fun of my friend afterward, I saw my advisory teacher sing karaoke. I know right, not your typical mass, but it was fun.

migration cont.

• immigration concerns in Europe
• population growth in Europe is fueled by immigration from other regions of the world, a trend disliked by many Europeans
• the biggest fear is that the host country's culture will be lost because of immigrants
• 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 in many European countries
• immigrants blamed for the crime, unemployment rates, and high welfare costs
• characteristics of immigrants
• 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 adult seeking work rather than children or elderly people

migration cont.

• countries have adopted selective immigration policies
• preference is shown for specific employment placement and family reunification
• passing of the quota act in 1921 and the national origins act in 1924 by us congress marked the end of unrestricted immigration to the us
• more seek admission to us than is permitted by the quotas, thus preferences re shown toward
• family reunification
• about 3/4 of immigrants
• skilled workers
• approximately 1/4 of immigrants
• diversity
• few immigrants admitted
• brain drain: disproportionate amount of highly skilled and intelligent citizens migrating away from sending countries
• unauthorized immigrants are those who enter a country without proper documents
• characteristics of unathorized immigrants in the us
• source country
• roughly 58% emigrate from mexico
• children
• estimated 11.2 million unauthorized immigrants, 1 million are children
• unauthorized immigrants have given birth to 4.5 million children on us soil making the children us citizens
• years in the us
• suration of residency has increased for unauthorized immigrants
• in 2010 35% of adults had been in us of at least 15 years
• labor force
• approximately 8 million unauthorized immigrants are employed in the us
• distridution
• texas and California have the largest number of unauthorized immigrants
• mexicos border with the us
• view from us recognizes motives that compel unauthorized immigrants to enter illegally
• employment opportunities
• family reunificaion
• a better way of life
• view from mexico is more complex
• residents of northern mexico wish for compassion to be shown to unauthorized immirgrants
• residents of southern Mexico are less tolerant because of number of unauthorized immigrants entering Mexico from Guatemala

why do migrants face challenges notes

• a migrant needs a passport to legally emigrate from a country and a visa to legally immigrate to a new country
• two reasons that most visas are granted are for specific employment placement and family reunification
• U.N. classifies countries according to four types of immigration policies
• maintain the current level of immigration
• increase the level
• reduce the level
• no policy
• unauthorized immigrants are those who are entering without proper documents
• three groups
• unauthorized immigrants
• undocumented immigrants
• illegal alien
• information about unauthorized immigrants
• distribution
• source country
• children
• years in the united states
• labor force
• quotas are the maximum limits on the number of people who could immigrate to the united states during a one-year period
• years key modifications were made in the U.S.
• 1924
• 1965
• 1978
• 1990
• 12 million immigrants to the united states between 1892 and 1954 were processed t Ellis Island
• Ellis Island became part of the statue of liberty national monument in 1965
• congress set preferences for the number of applicants for admission to the united states far exceeds the quotas
• family reunification
• skilled workers
• diversity
• typical wait for a spouse to gain entry is currently about 5 years
• quota does not apply to refugees
• other countries charge that by giving preference to skilled workers immigration policies in the united states as well as developed countries
• brain drain us a large-scale emigration by talented people, scientists, researchers, doctors, and other professionals migrate to countries where they can make better use of their abilities
• chain migration which is the migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there
• the uniqueness of each of our immigration experiences has many dimensions
• timing
• origin
• diversity

changing u.s. immigration notes

• 80 million people migrated to the united states between 1820 and 2015, including 42 million who were alive in 2015
• three main eras of immigration
• colonial settlement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
• mass European immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
• 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 come from two principal places, Europe and sub-Saharan Africa
• africans were forced to migrate to the united states as slaves whereas most Europeans were voluntary migrants
• harsh economic conditions and religious persecution in Europe blurred the distinction between forced and voluntary migration for many Europeans
• migration from Europe to the united states peaked at serval points during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
• The 1840s and 1850s: Ireland and Germany
• The 1870s: Ireland and Germany
• The 1880s: Scandinavia
• 1905-1914: southern and eastern Europe
• european countries, Germany has sent the largest number of immigrants to the united states 7.2 million
• eurpean sources include italy 5.4 million
• united ingdom 5.3 million
• ireland 4.8 million
• russia 4.1 million
• about 1/4 of Americans trace their ancestry to German immigrants and 1/8 each to Irish and English immigrants
• immigration to the united states dropped sharply in the 1930s and 1940s during the great depression and world war II
• the numbers steadily increased beginning in the 1950s and then surged to historically high levels during the first decade of the twenty-first century
• more than 3/4 of the recent u.s. immigrants have emigrated from two regions
• latin America
• asia
• rapid population growth has limited prospects for economic advancements at home
• Europeans left when their countries entered stage 2 of the demographic transition in the nineteenth century
• lsyin americans and asians began to leave in large numbers in recent years after their countries entered stage 2
• with poor conditions at home immigrant were lured by economic opportunity and soical advancement in the united states

podcast notes

• 900 jews flee Nazi Germany looking for asylum and get turned down
• non-Reforma: not returning
• 1951 UN meeting
• 1945 end of WW2
• persecution
• race
• nationality
• religion
• political beliefs
• social groups
• surge
• domestic violence (under Obama)
• gang violence
• terrorism
• being gay

we listened to the rest of the podcast and I found it very interesting. It gave a lot of information the powerpoint and book didn't give us.