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The two leading sources of immigrants since the late twentieth century to the United States have been:

A) Latin America and Asia
B) Latin America and Africa
C) Africa and Europe
D) Germany and Asia
E) Asia and United Kingdom

F) A) and C)
G) A) and B)

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Europeans comprised more than 90 percent of immigrants to the United States during the nineteenth century, and even as recently as the early 1960s, still accounted for more than 50 percent.

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B) False

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Economically advanced countries, especially the United States, have record low numbers of people trying to enter to find work.

________ diffusion involves the relocation of people themselves from one place to another.

Briefly discuss rural-urban migration and the recent trends of suburbanization.

In Paris, and other similar cities in France, ________ do a large share of the menial labor.

Recent advances in the recovery and analysis of human genetics has begun to fill in the map of early human migration.

Scientists generally agree that our early (hominid) ancestors evolved from an area in ________.

International migration has decreased considerably in recent decades as economic disparities lessen between wealthy and poor regions.

One of the largest countries in Africa, Morocco's unstable environmental and political conditions have driven millions from their homes.

Explain the political causes of forced migration in recent years.

Most of the immigrants to the United States in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries came from

During the 19th century, the largest migration stream was that between ________.

How is interregional migration different from intraregional migration?

E.G. Ravenstein considered it a "law of migration" that longer distance migrations would gravitate away from centers of economic strength.

According to the textbook, humans have always migrated, beginning about ________ years ago

About half of the world's international tourists choose ________ as their destination.

The primary set of push and pull factors shaping global migration are political.

The number of international tourists has more than doubled during the last two decades.

Briefly explain modern trends in mass migration.