Intervening opportunity Migration patterns Intercontinental Interregional Rural-urban • Migratory movement Periodic movement Personal space Place utility Push-pull factors Refugee Space-time prism Step migration Transhumance Transmigration Voluntary Assessment and Resources Debate: Population Issue Resolutions: --The world is facing a population crisis and should pursue policies to achieve zero-population growth --The United States should establish a guest worker program for Mexican immigrants currently residing and working in the US illegally Population Issues: Presentation Why has AIDS been so difficult to contain in , and AIDS ’s what are the implications of Crisis AIDS for the continent’s future? How was the 1994 Cairo Conference a watershed The Plan event in efforts to control population growth? Why are many European countries experiencing zero ’s or negative population Vanishing growth, why is this causing Act such concern, and what can be done in response? Discuss the illegal business of trafficking in human International cargo: the most common Human routes, the experiences of Smuggling those smuggled, and the efforts to stop it. Evaluate the impact/ One child morality of ’s ’s “one-child” Policy policy. Why are developing The countries not proceeding Developing through the stages of the World’s demographic transition model in the same manner Trap” as European countries? Examine the challenges faced by the Border Patrol in securing the US-Mexican Making a border & the experiences of Run for the those Mexicans (and others) Border who cross the border illegally.
Intervening opportunity Migration patterns Intercontinental Interregional • Rural-urban Migratory movement Periodic movement Personal space Place utility Push-pull factors Refugee Space-time prism Step migration Transhumance Transmigration Voluntary Assessment and Resources Debate: Population Issue Resolutions: --The world is facing a population crisis and should pursue policies to achieve zero-population growth --The United States should establish a guest worker program for Mexican immigrants currently residing and working in the US illegally Population Issues: Presentation ’s AIDS Crisis Why has AIDS been so difficult to contain in , and what are the implications of AIDS for the continent’s future? The Plan How was the 1994 Cairo Conference a watershed event in efforts to control population growth? ’s Vanishing Act Why are many European countries experiencing zero or negative population growth, why is this causing such concern, and what can be done in response? International Human Smuggling Discuss the illegal business of trafficking in human cargo: the most common routes, the experiences of those smuggled, and the efforts to stop it. ’s One child Policy Evaluate the impact/ morality of ’s “one-child” policy. The Developing World’s Trap” Why are developing countries not proceeding through the stages of the demographic transition model in the same manner as European countries? Making a Run for the Border Examine the challenges faced by the Border Patrol in securing the US-Mexican border & the experiences of those Mexicans (and others) who cross the border illegally.
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