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Watch this Jewish Voice for Peace 6 minute mini-primer about why Israelis and Palestinians are fighting..
This video from the Jewish Voice for Peace has a more politically motivated angle than most of the resources that I post on this site, but I feel that they do justice to both sides as well as the truth. In a simple way it lays out the roots of many of the problems in the region with historic and geographic perspectives.
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Although English is America’s common tongue, immigrants’ efforts to learn it present challenges to institutions and individuals alike. These graphics compare regions, schools, and communities where newcomers have settled to learn and integrate.
The interactive map feature of language and the accompanying spatial patterns reveal much about the major migrational patterns in the United States.
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Not every state is equally impacted by migration, and the demographic profile of migrants is different for every state. This is an online mapping tool to search a large database that can give the user state specific information about the impact of economics and politics based on migration from Latin America and Asia on any given state.
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List of the countries with the most migrants in the world as measured by net migration rate. Which countries have the most migrants per capita living there? What spatial or development patterns do you see on this list? Tags: Migration, population, Immigration, statistics, worldwide, unit 2 population. Via Seth Dixon Delete the scoop?
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The key facts and figures about refugees, IDPs, asylum seekers and stateless people from UNHCR's annual Global Trends report.
Not all migation is voluntary. Refugees and other non-voluntary migrants often are in their situation due to complex geographic factors beyond their control at the national scale.
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The Editor's Desk: U.S.Bureau of Labor Statistics...
Ethnic geography, migration and economic geography intersect in this compelling infographic. Via Seth Dixon Delete the scoop?
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America can be divided into two distinct classes, the stuck and the mobile...
Migration as a simply a function of push factors and pull factors needs to be more fully fleshed out. Not everyone is equally able to move freely (as those of you with mortgages can attest to) and that has a strong spatial relationship within the United States. Via Seth Dixon Delete the scoop?
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Where are the world's biggest Chinese and Indian immigrant communities? MORE Chinese people live outside mainland China than French people live in France, with some to be found in almost every country.
The two most populous countries in the world, India and China, are mentioned frequently when teaching population geography. However, it is typical in the United States to pass over these countries when discussing migration; this graphic shows the diasporas are quite extensive and highly influential. Via Tony Burton, Seth Dixon 
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July 8, 2012 10:47 PM
I wonder if improvements in communication technology and transportation may hinder many immigrants ability to gradually integrate into the nations they have migrated to and thus create demographically distinct areas.
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The number of Mexicans leaving for the United States is just about cancelled out by the number returning, according to statistics provided by the Mexican government.
Besides being an important (underreported) political fact, this new migratory pattern can lead to a good discussion of push and pull factors that lead to the geography of migration. Via Seth Dixon Delete the scoop?
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The Latinization of Southern Space and Place project investigates how the myriad discourses of migration and globalization have become manifest graphically across social spaces and street graphics in the contemporary American South.
As local demographics change, so does the cultural landscape and--as evidenced by Alabama writing the toughest anti-immigration law in the U.S.--the political landscape. Via Seth Dixon Delete the scoop?
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One out of four Swedes are immigrants or have a parent with an immigrant background.
Demographic shifts leading to political and cultural tensions. Europe, which historically has been a source of migrants, is relatively new to be a destination for migrants and that has heightened some of the conflicts. Via Seth Dixon 
Sean Rooney's comment,
October 3, 2012 8:53 AM
What is driving these migrants to Europe? Times have changed and is the economy a reason for migrants to Europe? I believe that migrants leave their home countries in order to seek economic, political, and religious freedom. It is interesting to compare European migration to United States migration. I agree that this leads to a conflict due to vast majority of demographic shifts.
Derek Ethier's comment,
October 10, 2012 10:06 PM
Because Sweden has a strong economy, it has a strong attraction for migrants around the world seeking better lives. Sweden is also a very liberal country which may attract refugees or people of that sort. Unfortunately, they have not integrated as well as the Swedes could have hoped. This is amazing to me because I never would have guessed Sweden had a higher immigrant population per capita than the U.S.
chris tobin's curator insight,
March 22, 1:48 PM
This is an interesting video where second generation immigrants help one another by sharing their problems and aspirations with each other. Immigrants started out as visiting immigrants working in factories. Later in time, they stayed and started families. These successive second and third generations now are culturally challenged. They have started their own support groups to help one another with the challenges and tensions they face within Sweden that is now their home. American, UK, London, Czechoslavakia, Slovakia and other countries have been experiencing these problems for a long time. Decreased jobs, increased government aid, mixed cultures, affordable housing and housing shortages, changing community, cultural, religious and economic populations are some of the major problems people face and creates much tension. They maintain their own cultural identity while melting into a mixed society with rising tensions within the population amidst job competition in a changing economy. Cultures tend to segregate themselves to maintain autonomy within this environment and to develop a support system within their group to cope. They see themselves as people who are from generations who moved to attain a better way of life, away from political, religious and economic turmoil. As successive generations follow, they continue to form their own identities and try to 'gel' or fit into their perspective communities as a whole.
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Interactive Migrations Map: Where are migrants coming from? Where have migrants left?
This is a great resource for a population unit or in a regional class. Via Seth Dixon 
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September 22, 2011 8:55 PM
My pleasure...There are plenty of demographic links that I have scooped on this page and I hope others can be of use to you.
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This website is one I've always referenced to highlight the growing trend of right-wing/anti-immigration parties in Europe (I DO NOT CONDONE THE IDEAS OF THE BLOG OBVIOUSLY). After the terrorist attack in Norway, it was discovered that this particular blogger was enormously influential on the thinking of the terrorist. Why Gates of Vienna? In his words, "At the siege of Vienna in 1683 Islam seemed poised to overrun Christian Europe. We are in a new phase of a very old war."
The Demographic Transition, Migration and politics all merge in this geographic restructuring of Europe. Via Seth Dixon Delete the scoop?
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Ian Goldin, Director of the Oxford Martin School, warns that a backlash against immigration would wreak havoc on everything from hospitals to the high-tech industry. The interview is part of the Risk Response Network’s “What if?
This is article can be an intriguing introduction to a thought exercise geared towards understanding the economic impact of migration and the social processes that create our world.
Questions to ponder: Which points of the interviewee do you agree with? Are there some that you think his analysis is off-base? What do you think the impacts on a given location would be if there was no migration allowed?
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Over a bottle of vodka and a traditional Russian salad of pickles, sausage and potatoes tossed in mayonnaise, a group of friends raised their glasses and wished Igor Irtenyev and his family a happy journey to Israel.
My regional class has been learning about Russia this week and when I first started teaching a few years ago, I would teach that Russia had a population of 145 million. Today it is 141 million and part of that is due to migrants leaving a country that they see as lacking in economic opportunities and political freedoms (another part of the story is that birth rates plummeted after the collapse of the Soviet Union in what demographers have called the "Russian Cross"). In the last few years the population appears to have stabilized, but there are still many who do not see a vibrant future from themselves within Russia.
Tags: Russia, migration, Demographics, immigration, unit 2 population. Via Nathan Parrish, Seth Dixon 
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October 11, 2012 12:51 AM
Seth, I was shocked as well, but the credit goes to my students who have seemed to use some 3rd party website that automatically "views" another site from what they told me this morning. I emailed my class to start visiting my scoop.it site, which I have just created a few weeks ago and they felt the need to help boost my view count. I teach 1 class of APHG (some years up to 5) in the East Bay of Northern California and have been a lifelong geographer. The content I scoop is all me, through my various searches online. I came to scoop.it to begin to collaborate with other APHG teachers and share the content with my students. I feel a bit embarrassed that my site was discovered this way and hopefully the scoops I provide can make up for my student's bad sense of humor.
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The Kauffman Foundation's Samuel Arbesman on his new book, The Half-Life of Facts.
This is an interview, Samuel Arbesman,the author of The Half-Life of Facts explains how population density and place matter in forming a creative economic workforce. Urban centers act as drivers of innovation and advancements and attract the more ambitious and daring workers. Additionally, this map on the expansion of the printing press (discussed in the interview) is also a great map to show how technological innovations can spur cultural diffusion.
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This map is a fantastic geovisualization that maps the spatial patterns of languages used on the social media platform Twitter. This map was in part inspired by a Twitter map of Europe. While most cities would be expected to be linguistically homogenous, but London's cosmopolitan nature and large pockets of immigrants influence the distribution greatly.
Tags: social media, language, neighborhood, visualization, cartography. Via Seth Dixon 
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Many site outsourcing as a way in which global corporatations are seeking to avoid the typical economic limitations that have been imposed on job production based on geography. Some refer to it as a 'spatial fix,' a way to get around the high cost of workers in the developed world being reworking how business gets done.
This takes that to an entirely different level. The benefits of agglomeration and collaboration help to explain the importance of Silicon Valley. Entrepreneurs from other countries do not all have access to a comparable location with a high concentration of intellectually driven enterprises that amplify their impacts. The Blueseed Project intents to, in essence create a floating city in international waters (just off the coast of California) that is outside of U.S. governmental jurisdiction, but easily accessible for Silicon Valley executives.
More questions than answers arise from this project. How are economic restructurings altering governance? Are borders becoming less or more important with increased technological advances? Would this be a benefit to developing world economies or strengthen the Silicon Valley's economic importance in research and development? Via Seth Dixon Delete the scoop?
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"Alabama’s new immigration law, H.B. 56, is already devastating the state’s agricultural sector."
Does teaching agriculture have to be boring? This particular issue is an excellent current topic that combines politics, culture and demographics within agriculture.
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March 8, 10:08 AM
Agriculture is still a very hands on job even with the 21centure
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More people left Phoenix in 2009 than came. The map above visualizes moves to and from Phoenix; counties that took more migrants than they sent are linked with red lines. Counties that sent more migrants than they took are linked with blue lines.
I've sent this link out before, but Forbes now has four articles attached to interactive mapping tool that analyze the data (including one by geographer Michael Conzen). Also the new data has been added and the visualization has also been improved...very cool features with tremendous amounts of teaching applications. Via Seth Dixon
Don Brown Jr's comment,
July 9, 2012 10:39 PM
I can’t help but notice that a substantial majority of immigrants moving towards the west and central part of the country are coming from the northeast where salaries tend to be higher. This makes me wonder to what extent income has in addition to population density on this map?
Kara H's comment,
July 10, 2012 9:48 PM
As the article says, migration depends on demographics, such as the elderly moving to Florida, and the young working class moving out. I noticed that people tend to stay where they are from, such as not moving so far way, east coasters tend to stay east coast etc.
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July 12, 2012 6:11 AM
If you click on the interactive portion of the map and check out Providence county, it is interesting to see that the outbound migration is slowly decreasing while the inbound migration is slowly increasing.
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ONEONTA, Ala. -- Potato farmer Keith Smith saw most of his immigrant workers leave after Alabama's tough immigration law took effect, so he hired Americans.
Geography is all about the interconnected of themes and places. This issue in Alabama is displaying these interconnections quite vividly. Economics, immigration, culture, politics and agriculture are intensely intertwined in this issue. Via Seth Dixon Delete the scoop?
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Farmers in states like Alabama that have passed strong anti-illegal immigration laws are fighting back, saying they are losing labor and that US workers are unwilling to take up farm work.
The connection between immigration, job availability and the recession is not as straightforward as some pundits make it out to be. Why aren't Americans taking these jobs? What does that tell us about our economy and the recession? What does this tell us about migrant labor? Via Seth Dixon Delete the scoop?
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In a converted apartment building in Chinatown, five adults and seven children blend traditional values and rituals with modern roles and responsibilities.
This article from the New York Times by Sarah Kramer leads to many cultural question worth exploring. How does migration impact the culture of families? How is culture maintained and reproduced? Why is maintaining cultural connection so vital to these families? Via Seth Dixon Delete the scoop?
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In several previous posts we have looked at specific migration channels connecting Mexico to the USA: From Morelos to Minnesota; case study of a migrant...
An excellent way to show examples of chain migration and the gravity model...students will understand the concepts with concretes examples. These interactive maps have crisp geo-visualizations of the migratory flows. Via Seth Dixon
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September 20, 2012 10:51 PM
Ethnic groups have always been drawn to areas where there kinsmen reside. This map reinforces this idea. Texas and California are obvious destinations due to proximity, but Chicago shows how migrants join family and others with ethnic ties to maintain heritage and feel closer to home. Chicago has a large minority population, which also contributes to this.
Benjamin DeRita's comment,
September 24, 2012 1:28 PM
For the majority of regions the migration percentages are seemingly obvious and to be expected. However, am surprised to see a region such as Guerrero have a high concentration of relocation to Raleigh, NC. Also Guerrero seems unique where it has no clear dominant destination compared to many of its neighbors. Outside of Chicago (1) the next four cities are essentially receiving equal migration.
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February 7, 12:32 PM
I found this map very interesting because my original thought was that the most migration would take place close to the boarders and flow exponentially outward. The fact that Chicago has more migration from Mexico than Texas, Arizona, or California kind of throws a wrench in that hypothesis. Perhaps migration is not based so much on location, but rather what work is available in the region, how strict the local laws on immigration are, and if there is family in the area. Delete the scoop?
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More than 10 million Americans moved from one county to another during 2008. The map below visualizes those moves. Click on any county to see comings and goings: black lines indicate net inward movement, red lines net outward movement. Via Seth Dixon 
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I thought this was interesting showing the flight from the northeast and midwest
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January 30, 10:45 AM
This is a dynamic illustration of international migration in the US that fits nicely within Chapter 3. Delete the scoop?
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This video from the Jewish Voice for Peace has a more politically motivated angle than most of the resources that I post on this site, but I feel that they do justice to both sides as well as the truth. In a simple way it lays out the roots of many of the problems in the region with historic and geographic perspectives.
Tags: Israel, Palestine, conflict, political, borders.
I would most certainly be open to posting something more pro-Israeli since I'm not trying to advocate a particular point or push a perspective, but I did think it was a good, is somewhat flawed resource. It's near impossible to find anything without bias so I decided that sharing some flawed sources is better than not sharing any on a pretty weighty topic.
This video from the Jewish Voice for Peace has a more politically motivated angle than most of the resources that I post on this site, but I feel that they do justice to both sides as well as the truth. In a simple way it lays out the roots of many of the problems in the region with historic and geographic perspectives.
Tags: Israel, Palestine, conflict, political, borders.