11298291085 | center of population | average location of a person in a country You want the population to be centered because it suggests that services are available to all people in a country | 0 | |
11298291086 | Interregional migration | Permanent movement from one region of the country to another ex: from rural areas to urban areas | 1 | |
11298291087 | Intraregional migration | Permanent movement within one region of the country. ex: from rural areas to urban areas | 2 | |
11298291088 | Forced Migration | Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors. | 3 | |
11298291089 | Voluntary migration | Permanent movement undertaken by choice. | 4 | |
11298291090 | International migration | Permanent movement from one country to another. | 5 | |
11298291091 | Wilbur Zelinsky | Identified a migration transition | 6 | |
11298291092 | emigration | Migration from a location | 7 | |
11298291093 | Push Factors | Factors that induce people to leave old residences. ex: a natural disaster (too much water too little water), A refugee being forced to move because of armed conflict (war), being forced to migrate because of political reasons | 8 | |
11298291094 | Pull factors | Factors that induce people to move to a new location. ex: asylum seekers: someone who migrated in hopes of being recognized as a refugee immigrants moving to the mountains, Seaside, warm climate people moving from their homes because of weather | 9 | |
11298291095 | asylum seeker | Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee | 10 | |
11298291096 | Brain drain | Large-scale emigration by talented people. ex: taking someone extremely talented/smart from another country and bringing them to yours with better offers. | 11 | |
11298291097 | illegal aliens/undocumented residents | a foreign national who is living without authorization in a country of which they are not a citizen | 12 | |
11298291098 | Suburbanization | The process of population movement from within towns and cities to the rural-urban fringe. | 13 | |
11298291099 | Guest workers | Workers who migrate to the more developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern of Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of higher-paying jobs. They were only supposed to be there temporarily but ended up staying This no longer exists | 14 | |
11298291100 | Refugees | People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion. | 15 | |
11298291101 | Net migration | The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration. | 16 | |
11298291102 | Gravity model | A model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service. | 17 | |
11298291103 | Distance decay function | 18 | ||
11298291104 | counterurbanization | 19 |
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