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Large-scale emigration by talented people.
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Brain drain
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Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there.
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Chain migration
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Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis.
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Ciculation
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Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries.
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Counterurbanization
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Migration from a location.
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Emigration
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The area subject to flooding during a given number of years according to historical trends.
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Floodplain
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Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors.
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Forced migration
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Workers who migrate to the more developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of higher-paying jobs.
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Guest workers
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Migration to a new location.
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Immigration
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Permanent movement withing a particular country.
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Internal migration
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Permanent movement from one country to another.
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International migration
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Permanent movement from one region of a country to another.
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Interregional migration
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An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration.
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Intervening obstacle
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Permanent movement withing one region of a country.
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Intraregional migration
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A form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location.
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Migration
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A change in the migration pattern in society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition.
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Migration transition
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All types of movement from one location to another.
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Mobility
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The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration.
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Net migration
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A factor that induces people to move to a new location.
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Pull factor
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A factor that induces people to leave old residences.
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Push factor
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In reference migration, laws that place maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year.
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Quotas
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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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Refugees
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People who enter a country without proper documentation.
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Unauthorized Immigrants
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Permanent movement undertaken by choice.
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Voluntary migration
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