People have migrated from place to place for more than 60,000 years. Immigration makes up about 40 percent of population growth in the United States each year. Examine how and why people move from one place to another in Migration and Settlement, one of the titles in the World Geography series.

Includes index.

Lightbox access code -- Migration and settlement -- Studying human movements -- Voluntary migration -- Involuntary migration -- Colonization -- Mapping human movement -- Cultural diffusion -- How migrants and settlers affect the environment -- Adapting to a new home -- History of migration and settlement -- Side by side -- The future of migration and settlement.