Patrice Stubblefield

9th period
My Migration Story

My migration story on my mothers side began in a small, rural town

called McComb, Mississippi. As you can tell my moms source country and
destination country was one in the same, the United States of America. She
lived in McComb for most of her childhood, however there is one exception to
this statement. When she was young her family moved to California for a
year. According to my mom the push factor for this movement was because
her parents got better job opportunities. Once my mom turned eighteen she
moved back to Mississippi, but this time she went to a town called Lorman.
The pull factor for her move back to Mississippi was that she wanted to
attend the same college her grandmother went to. After she graduated, she
went in search of a job, but unfortunately could not find one. After months of
not being able to find a job she initially planned to go back to McComb,
where her family had just moved back to, but instead she confided in her
friend. This intervening opportunity led my mom to Maine. Through
interregional migration, my mom packed her things and moved to Maine for
the summer. Once the summer was over, not being satisfied with her job she
performed voluntary migration and moved to Chicago. As we can tell one of
Ernst Ravensteins laws of migration applies. The one I am referring to says
that migrants who travel longer distances tend to migrate to larger cities. At
the time, my mom had to take care of my two sisters and although she did
find a job she felt that she did not have enough support being so far away
from home and this was a major push factor which made her move back to

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McComb, Mississippi. After my sisters grew up a little my mom was ready to

look for a different job. Once again through kinship links she decided to
migrate to Houston, one of the many cities in the south located in the
Sunbelt. In this instance one of the laws of migration, which states that the
majority of migrants move a short distance, applies. This intraregional
migration is how my mom ended up in Houston, where she met my dad and
had me.