Migration

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Asylum

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Shelter and protection in one state for refugees from another state

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Colonization

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Physical process whereby the colonizer takes over another place, putting its own government in charge and either moving its own people into the place or bringing in indentured outsiders to gain control of the people and the land

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Cyclical Movement

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Movement- for example, nomadic migration- that has a closer route and is repeated annually or seasonally, it would go basically in a circle

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Distance Decay

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The effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater distance the less interaction

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Forced Migration

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Human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate

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Guest Workers

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Legal immigrant who has a work visa, usually short term

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Internal Migration

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Human movement within a Nation-state, such as longingly westward and southward movement in the United States

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Internal Refugee

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People who have been displaced within their own countries and do not cross

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International Migration

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Human movement within a Nation- State, such as longingly westward and southward in the United States

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International Refugee

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Refugees who have crossed one or more international boundaries duting their dislocation, searching for asylum in a different country

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Intervening Opportunity

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The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away

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Migration

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A change, in residence intended to be permanent

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Nomadism

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Movement among a definite set of places- often cyclic movement

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Periodic Movement

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For example, college attendance or military service-that involves temporarily, recurrent relocation

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Pull Factors

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Positive conditions and perceptions that effectively attract people to new locales from other areas

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Quotas

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Established limited by government on the number of immigrants who can enter a country each year

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Refugee

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People who have fled their country because of political persecution and seek asylum in another country

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Remittances

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Money migrants send back to family and friends in their home countries, often in cash, forming an important part of the economy in many poorer countries

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Selective Immigration

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Process to control immigrants in which individuals with certain backgrounds (criminal records, poor health, or subversive activities) are barred from immigrating

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Step Migration

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To distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village and later to town and city

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Transhumance

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A seasonal periodic movement of Pastoralists and their livestock between highland and lowland pastures