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23 Cards in this Set
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Remittances
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Monies migrants send home to family
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Cyclic movement
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Involves shorter periods away from home
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Periodic movement
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Involves longer periods away from home
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Migration
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Involves a degree of permanence; the mover may never return home
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Nomadism
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A type of cyclic movement that involves surival, culture, and tradition
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Transhumance
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A system of pastoral farming in which ranchers move livestock according to the seasonal availability of pastures
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International migration
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Movement across country borders
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Forced migration
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Involves the imposition of authority or power, producing involuntary migration movements that cannot be understood based on theories of choice
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Internal migration
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Migration that occurs within a single country's borders
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Voluntary migration
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Occurs after a migrant weighs options and choices and can be analyzed and understood as a series of options or choices that result in movement
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Push factors
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The conditions and perceptions that help the migrant decide to leave a place
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Pull factors
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The circumstances that effectively attract the migrant to certain locales from other places
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Distance decay
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This principle is used when considering pull factors
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Step migration
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Many migration streams that appear on maps as long, unbroken routes, which consist of a series of stages
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Intervening opportunity
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Any route of migration that is interrupted by an opportunity
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Colonization
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A 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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Guest workers
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Labor migrants
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Refugee
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A person who has a wellfounded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion
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Internal refugee
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People who have been displaced within their own countries, but they do not cross international borders as they flee
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International refugee
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People who abandon their homes but remain in their own countries
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Asylum
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The right to protection in the first country in which the refugee arrives
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Quotas
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Established limits by governments on the number of immigrants who can enter a country each year
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Selective immigration
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Individuals with certain backgrounds are barred from entering
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