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OKIE MIGRATION DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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SOURCES:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tsme.html (search the Migrant Experience)
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_06.html
http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/cunfer.dustbowl
Okie migration
Push factors: A set of interacting forces both economic and ecological pushed the Okies out of Oklahoma &brought the migrant workers to California.
Pull factors: Environmental , For people whose lives had revolved around farming, California seemed like an ideal place to look for work.
The important thing about the Okie Migration is that it brought in over a million newly displaced people(lots were looking to farm) many of which headed to the farms in California's Central Valley, because the Dust Bowl forced them out of Oklahoma.
(During the
Great Depression :/)
Type of migration:
The okie's migration was forced by environmental issues (Dust Bowl & droughts) ,They migrated mainly to (interregional)California to farm.
The Gravity Model ties in
with the okies migration because they Migrated to California which is not so far away and it was easier to travel.
When the okies began to migrate to California , the state that had once advertised for more migrant workers ended up finding themselves overwhelmed by up to 7,000 new migrants a month!
I'M A DUST BOWL REFUGEE :/
An intervening obstacle that the okies faced was adapting culturally to California. An opportunity was the amount of jobs available (to economically advance.)