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29 Cards in this Set
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Migration |
Permanent movement of people to a new location |
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Immigration |
Into a place |
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Emmigration |
From a place |
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Net migration |
Difference between number of imagrants and number of emmigrants |
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Counter migration |
The return of migrants to the regions of which they erlier migrated |
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Intercontinental |
Across countinents |
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Interregional |
Between regions |
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Push factor |
What makes someone leave to go to a new place |
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Pull factor |
Positive things that make people leave to go somewhere else |
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Forced |
When people have no choice but to migrate |
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Voluntary |
Move for oppertunity, not because they have to |
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Place utility theory |
Disirability of living in a place based on circumstances, as composed to living elsewhere |
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Migration feilds |
Cluster of people from one region relocating to another |
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Step migration |
Making short migrations until settling in a final one |
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Chain migration |
Members of a family or ethnic group migrate to a location |
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Seasonal migration |
Cycil pattern of movement based on climate or seasonal crop harvestors, snow birds |
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Transhumance |
Movement of humans as pastaralism or nomadism |
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Guest workers |
Workers who temporarily work for more developed countries to do jobs peopke there wont do, and get money for more then they usually would |
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Intervening opportunities |
The presence of a nearer oppertunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away. |
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Intervening obsticles |
An enviornmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration |
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Counter urbanization |
Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries |
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Time space prisms |
Set of all points that can be reached by an individual given a maximum possible speed from a starting point |
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Activity space |
Places in a local area in which cyclic movement occurs |
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Gravity model |
A model that holds that the potential use of a service at a perticular location is directly related to the number of people in a location |
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Refugee |
People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution |
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Refugee |
People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution |
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Internally displaced person |
Individuals who are uprooted within the boundaries of their own country because of conflict or human rights abuse |
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Brain drain |
Large scale emmagration by talented people |
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Circulation |
Short term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis |
