Mexico to USA Migration | Geography Case Study & Workbooks

Help students explain migration from Mexico to the USA through its causes, impacts and management.

This detailed specific example connects differences between origin and destination with migrant experiences, remittances and policy responses. It gives students a named migration flow to use in geographical explanations and evaluation.

Learning covered

• Locate and describe the migration flow from Mexico to the USA.
• Explain relevant push and pull factors.
• Compare effects on migrants, Mexico and the USA.
• Interpret evidence about remittances and other impacts.
• Explain and evaluate approaches to managing migration.

Teaching options and materials

Choose between the tiered Full Lesson presentation and the focused Essentials presentation, which includes detailed teacher notes. The Full Lesson workbook is supplied in colour, black and white and an online-labelled Word version. The Essentials Booklet includes completed and student-notes versions, with black-and-white alternatives.

Also included are a separate exam practice pack, mark scheme, short assessment and START HERE guide.

Letters Across the Border

Teams write a dated letter from the perspective of a person affected by migration. The letter must connect a cause, an impact and a management response, with figures traced to the taught evidence. An editor checks the claims before the team responds to new information. The dates keep historical evidence and policy context clear.

The collaborative activity includes its own presentation and printable pack.

Designed for ages 14–16 and Cambridge IGCSE Geography 0460 population topics for the 2027 course. Supplied as editable PowerPoint and Word files, plus a PDF guide. Illustrations are embedded images. Online-labelled versions are documents rather than hosted activities.

Module 7 of the Geography Oasis Population unit; available to teach separately or as part of the seven-module unit.

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