Ap Human Geo Chapter Three Vocab

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Brain Drain

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This is a large scale emigration by talented people.

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Chain Migration

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This is the migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there.

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Circulation

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these types of short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that reoccur on a regular basis, such as daily, monthly or annually are called circulation. For example: going shopping, going to work and college students returning home after the school term is over.

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counter-urbanizing

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During the late twentieth century, for the first time ever Western Europe and North America witnessed a weird phenomena of people migrating to rural areas more then the rural people were migrating to the urban areas. That is the definition of this word: people moving from urban to rural areas. This has started occurring simply because no longer is it a given fact that when you move out to the country that you will lose contact with society. You can still wear the same clothes [order them}, still keep track of sports or celebrity news [television], still have a non-farming job [work off your computer] and so on.

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emigration

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This is migration from a location.

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Floodplain

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The floodplain of a river is the area subject to flooding during a specific number of years, according to historical trends.

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Forced Migration

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Forced migration means that the migrant has been forced to move because of cultural factors. Push and pull factors are only for voluntary factors.

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Guest Workers

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Citizens of poor countries who obtain jobs in Western Europe and the Middle East are known as guest workers.

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Immigration

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This is the migration to a location.

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Internal Migration

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This is a permanent movement within the same country.

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International migration

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This is a permanent movement from one country into another.

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Interregional Migration

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This is a movement from one region of a country to another.

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Intraregional Migration

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This is a movement within the same region in the same country.

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Intervening Obstacle

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This is an environmental or cultural feature that hinders migration.

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Migration

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This is a permanent move to another location.

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Migration Transition

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This has been identified by Wilbur Zelinsky. It consists of changes within a society similar to those of a demographic transition. The migration transition is a change in the migration pattern in a society that results from the social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition.

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Mobility

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Migration is a form of mobility, which is a general term covering all types of movements from one place to another.

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Net Migration

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The difference between the amount of immigrant and emigrants is the net migration.

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Pull Factor

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This is what induces the person to move to the new location in the first place.

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Push Factor

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This is what induces the person to move OUT of their present location.

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Quotas

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These are the maximum limits on the number of people who could immigrate to the United States from each country during a one-year period.

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Refugees

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These are people who have been forced to move from their home and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their religion, race, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion

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Undocumented Immigrants

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Many people who cannot legally come to the United States are so now doing it illegally. Those who are entering without proper documents and thus are called undocumented immigrants.

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Voluntary Migrants

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This is the migration by will, which is usually caused by push factors and pull factors.