1. Compare the Trail of Tears in the 1830s to the migration of people from Afghanistan and Syria in 2014. How are they similar and how are they different? (a) Describe a specific location that has an environmental pull factor.
(b) Describe a specific location that has an environmental push factor.

2. Identify three countries that are struggling with desertification in Africa.

3. When it comes to migration, define intervening obstacles. How has the environment been an intervening obstacle in the past? Do you believe that this is still the case?

4. Discuss the shift from net out-migration in the 1850s to net in-migration in the 1990s in Ireland. Do you predict this will happen to other countries that have net out-migration today such as Guatemala and Afghanistan? If so, what do you think are a couple of the changes that will have to occur in these countries?

5. Describe three trends among Asian migrant workers in South, East, and Southwest Asia.

6. What does the company Western Union do? Have you ever seen or used a Western Union? How does Western Union make money? Explain.

7. If people in India received $71 billion in remittances in 2013 and people in China received $60 billion in remittances in 2013, what else can you conclude about India and China and/or the people who live in these two countries?

8. Identify the gender pattern of undocumented Mexican immigrants to the U. S. in the 1980s and how it differed from the gender makeup of undocumented Mexican immigrants beginning in the 1990s. What does this say about the role of women in Mexico? Does this match with the other (limited) information we have learned about education and fertility rates for Mexican girls and women?

Please help me answer these questions and answer them in full detail. They are due by 7:00 PM tonight