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12 Cards in this Set
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Intervening obstacle
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An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration.
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Intraregional migration
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Permanent movement withing within one region of a country.
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Migration
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Form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location.
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Migration transition
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Change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition.
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Mobility
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All types of movement from one location to another.
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Net migration
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The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration.
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Pull factor
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Factor that induces people to move to a new loaction.
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Push factor
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Factor that induces people to leave old residences.
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Quotas
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In reference in migration, laws that place maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year.
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Refugees
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People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion.
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Unauthorized immigrants
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People who enter a country without proper documents.
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Voluntary migration
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Permanent movement undertaken by choice.
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