Explore: Maps of Immigrants and Emigrants Around the World (Migration Policy Institute) https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/maps-immigrants-and-emigrants-around-world

Explore: Visualization of Asylum Seekers
http://archive.pov.org/specialflight/interactive-map-asylum-seekers/

Explore: Migration Data Portal
https://migrationdataportal.org/?i=stock_abs_&t=2019

After you explore the course materials from this week please complete the following:

1. Pick three of the maps from the migration policy institute link. For each map answer the following… (About 200 words)
a) What type of map does the author use to tell a story? (Does it show little bubbles of different size – a proportional symbol? or perhaps a choropleth map (shaded areas)
b) How is visual hierarchy used on this map?
c)  What is the title of the map? What story does the map tell? What does it show?
d) What are some strengths and weaknesses of the map? What would you change?
e) Does it say where the data came from? How do you think it’s collected?

2. Navigate to the asylum seekers map. Explore it.  (About 200 words)
a) What geographic patterns do you see?
b) Where does the data come from?
c) Do you like the approach the cartographers took to creating the map? What would you change if you made a map about asylum seekers?

3. Migration Data Portal  (About 150 words)
a) Togging through the different categories under ‘immigration and emigration’ – look at the proportional symbols on the map – find the country you created charts for last week (Spain, charts attached). Are the numbers similar to what you found? If there are discrepancies – how do you account for them?
b) What patterns emerge on this map?
c) Please include snips of two countries (for immigration and emigration) you haven’t explored yet. Describe what you see.