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29 Cards in this Set
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Activity Space |
the local areas within which people move or travel in the course of their daily activities |
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Asylum Seeker |
someone who has fled their home in search of safety and protection in another country. |
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Brain Drain |
the emigration of highly trained or intelligent people from a particular country. |
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circulation |
Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis |
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chain migration |
the social process by which immigrants from a particular area follow others from that area to a particular destination. |
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counter urbanization |
the process by which a significant portion of the population of an urban center starts to migrate away from the city to live in suburbs or rural areas. |
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cyclic movement |
the motion undertaken by an object that follows a repeating path over time. |
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diaspora |
the scattering of people who have a common background or beliefs. |
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Distance Decay |
as the distance between two places increases, the interaction between those two places decreases. |
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Emigration |
emigration is leaving |
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forced migration |
an involuntary or coerced movement of a person or people away from their home or home region. |
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internal migration |
the movement of people between usual residences within national states. |
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EG Ravenstein |
his groundbreaking 'Rules of Migration' a detailed study of human movement. |
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internally displaced person |
someone who is forced to leave their home but who remains within their country's borders. |
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international migration patterns |
most people migrate from developing countries to developed ones. |
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interregional migration |
movement within country |
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intervening opportunity |
a feature (usually economic) that causes a migrant to choose a destination other than his original one. |
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intraregional migration |
the permanent movement within one region of a country. |
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migration |
the movement of people from one place to another with intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily, at a new location. |
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mobility |
All types of movement from one location to another |
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pull factors |
positive factors that attract people to new areas from other areas |
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push factors |
a factor that motivates a person to migrate away from their country or region of residence. |
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quota |
A limit on maximum number of people who can immigrate to an area annually |
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refugee |
a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. |
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remittance |
Money immigrants send back to family and friends in their home countries, often in cash |
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seasonal mobility |
migration by season |
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step migration |
When a migrant follows a path of a series of stages, or steps toward a final destination |
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transhumance |
seasonal movement of livestock (such as sheep) between mountain and lowland pastures either under the care of herders or in company with the owners. |
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voluntary migration |
Movement in which people relocate in response to perceived oppurtunity, not becaused they are forced to move |
