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21 Cards in this Set
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Island of development |
A place established by European colonialism. |
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Kinship links |
Types of push or pull factors. |
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Laws of migration |
Set of rules created by Ernst RAVENSTEIN. |
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Migrant labor |
Common type of periodic movement involving millions of U.S workers. |
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Migration |
Moving from one place to another. |
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Military service |
Involving U.S citizens and military people and their families. |
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Nomadism |
Cyclical movement, less and less common. |
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Periodic movement |
Involves longer periods away from home. |
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Pull factor |
Influence in favor of going to that place. |
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Push factor |
Influence over leaving the place you are in. |
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Quotas |
Limits by a government on the number of immigrants who can enter each year. |
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Refugees |
People who have fled there country because of political persecution. |
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Regional scale |
Interactions occurring within a region. |
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Remittances |
Money that migrants send back to their families and friends back at home. |
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Repatriation |
Process of returning refugees to their homelands. |
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Reverse remittances |
Flow of money families in a home country to their undocumented migrant family members. |
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Russification |
Soviet policy to promote the diffusion of Russia. |
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Selective immigration |
Process to control immigration in people with certain backgrounds. |
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Step migration |
Migration that involved moving in small increments over time. |
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Transhumance |
Specialized form of periodic movement in pastoral farming. |
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Voluntary migration |
Migration that may occur after a migrant weighs option and choices. |
