Hello there geographers and welcome back to the Mr. Sin channel. In this video we're going to be going over everything you need to know about Zelinsky's migration transition model. Before we get started with Zelinsky's model, I have to make sure that you understand what the demographic transition model is. If you're a little bit unsure on that model, you can check out one of my videos that covers the demographic transition model.
The reason why it's going to be important for you to understand that model before you look at this one is because Zielinski's model connects directly to the different stages in the demographic transition model. So if you need a refresher on it or if you need more information on that one, check out my video on that and then come back to this video. This model was created by Wilbur Zielinski and it was looking at the migration patterns of people as society develops. It connects again directly to our demographic transition model. See, Zelensky found that people migrate for different reasons, and that actually the evolution of society, the development of society, has a huge influence on migration patterns.
Zelensky believed that in stage one of this model, migration is going to be more seasonal. People are going to be moving around a lot, and it's going to be centered around food and survival. They're not going to be doing international migration.
It's going to be more local. Now, they're going to be going into more of a nomadic lifestyle here, because here we're seeing where people need to just survive. So we're not seeing that much of a developed society.
This connects to our stage one of the demographic transition model. This also connects to some of our agricultural practices, like pastoral nomadism or transhumans migration. If you need more information on those, you can click the card on the top right.
I go into all those concepts in other videos on the channel as well. But stage one, the important thing for you to remember is we're going to have a lot of migration. It's going to be local and it's going to be centralized around food.
Everything is about eating and survival in stage one. Now, stage two of this model is defined by movement of people from rural communities to urban areas. See, due to population booms in stage two of the demographic transition model, people are searching for more work. They're searching for more opportunities in life, and the cities provide that.
So we can see a direct connection to our stage two of the demographic transition model. This is also where we're going to see the most international migration, where people are going to move to a different country. And that's because as their country is in stage two, it's going to be harder to find economic opportunity. This is a push and pull factor.
We covered that also on the channel. But people are going to be going then to more developed countries. So in your country is in stage two of Zelensky's model, or the stage two of the demographic transition, you're going to see more emigrants.
Those are people who are leaving your country. And if you're in a developed stage, then if you're further on, you're going to see more immigrants. For example, the United States between 1820 and 1920 saw over 32 million immigrants, people who came in. Out of all those 32 million, 90% were from Europe. Those are people that emigrated from Europe and came to the United States due to economic and political stability.
And that is showing our stage two here. Big thing to remember for stage two is Zelensky's model. It's a shift from rural to urban, and we're also going to see the most international movement of people. And that is, again, because of our push and pull factors. And if you need a refresher on those, check out the video on the channel as well.
Now, stage three and stage four of Zelensky's model of migration are pretty much the same. Here, we're actually starting to see counter-urbanization. We're seeing a shift. People are now moving from the urban centers to suburbs, or even possibly back to the rural communities.
We're starting to see urban sprawl occurring. And migration is now happening within the country. We're seeing less international migration and more within the country's own borders.
And actually, we're seeing the main split now between inter-regional migration and intra-regional migration. Talked about those concepts on the channel as well. But here, inter-regional, the big thing to remember is this is between regions.
Inter-regional is I'm moving from one region in the country to another region in the country. While in Tra... regional migration is I am moving within the same region.
That would be an example of going from urban to a suburb area. So we're not leaving the region, but we are seeing a migration pattern occur there. And that's all you have to know about Zelinsky's model of migration or the migration transition model.
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