7873168917 | Migration | the movement of persons from one country or locality to another | ![]() | 0 |
7873186250 | Emigration | Movement of individuals out of a population | ![]() | 1 |
7873208353 | Immagration | Moving into a population | ![]() | 2 |
7873226256 | Net migration | Th gain or loss in a total population in a particular area as a result of migration | ![]() | 3 |
7873292200 | Circulation | Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis. | ![]() | 4 |
7873308189 | Push factor | Factor that induces people to leave old residences. | ![]() | 5 |
7873326655 | Pull factor | Induces people to move into a new location. | ![]() | 6 |
7925346386 | Refugees | People who flee their homeland to seek safety elsewhere | ![]() | 7 |
7925355281 | Asylum | Shelter and protection in one state for refugees from another state. | ![]() | 8 |
7925371091 | Intervening Obstacle | An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration. | ![]() | 9 |
7925390191 | International Migration | Human movement involving movement across international boundaries. | ![]() | 10 |
7925398111 | Internal Migration | The permanent or semipermanent movement of individuals within a particular country. | ![]() | 11 |
7925406872 | Interregional Migartion | Permanet movment from one region of a country to another. Ex. Moving to Maine from Arizona | 12 | |
7925437817 | Intaregional Migration | Movement within a region or counrty. Ex. Permanently moving to the midwest | 13 | |
7925491328 | Voluntary migration | Permanent movement undertaken by choice | ![]() | 14 |
7925498327 | Forced migration | Human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate | ![]() | 15 |
7925504946 | Wilbur Zelinsky | (born 1921) is recognized as one of America's most prominent cultural geographers | ![]() | 16 |
7925519373 | Chain Migration | pattern of migration that develops when migrants move along and through kinship links | ![]() | 17 |
7925539008 | Undocumented immigrants | People who enter a country without proper documents. | ![]() | 18 |
7925551605 | Quotas | Established limits by governments on the number of immigrants who can enter a country each year Ex. In 2013 only 300,000 immigrants can come to this country | 19 | |
7925581264 | Brain Drain | Large-scale emigration by talented people. A band emigrates to a country | 20 | |
7925598218 | Guest workers | Individuals who migrate temporarily to take up jobs in other countries | ![]() | 21 |
7925617031 | Counterurbanization | The net loss of population from cities to smaller towns and rural areas. | ![]() | 22 |
7925632950 | Gravity Model | A model that holds the potential use of a servace at a particular location Ex. People in a location? distance people must travel | 23 | |
7925686520 | Distance decay | The decline of an activity or function with increasing distance from the place of origin. | ![]() | 24 |
7925706748 | Step migration | Migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages | ![]() | 25 |
7925726760 | Counter Migration/return migration | The return of migrants which they earlier emigration. Ex. Refugees returing to there country when the disaster is over | 26 | |
7925765777 | Activity Space | The area within which people move freely on their rounds of regular activity | ![]() | 27 |
7925781547 | Cyclic Movement | Movement that has a closed route and is repeated annually or seasonally | ![]() | 28 |
7925794608 | Commuting | Paterns in human/economic systems, based on Newtons gravity equations. | ![]() | 29 |
7925834653 | Sesonal movement | Migration based on the particular season . Ex. In the summer, some people go on vacations | 30 | |
7925875072 | Periodic movement | Migration involving temporary, recurrent relocation. Ex: military service, college, etc. | 31 | |
7925882087 | Transhumance | The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures. | ![]() | 32 |
7925901589 | International Refugee | A person who as been displaced from their country, and trys to find an asylum. | ![]() | 33 |
7925940436 | Intranational refugee | A refugee who never returns to their own contry | ![]() | 34 |
7925966708 | Permanent refugee | A statis given to a refugee after being granted full citizenship status. | ![]() | 35 |
7926023259 | Temporary refugee | Status given to a refugee prior to receiving permanent residency in a new country | ![]() | 36 |
7926098074 | Immigration laws | Laws and regulations of a state designed specifically to control immigration into that state. | ![]() | 37 |
7926118367 | Mobility | All types of movement from one location to another. E.g. The ability to move | 38 | |
7926160625 | Transnational Migrants | Groups of people who maintain ties to their homelands after they have migrated. | ![]() | 39 |
7926181745 | Suburbanization | The process of population movement from within towns and cities to the rural-urban fringe. | ![]() | 40 |
7926230055 | Eco-Migration | Population movement caused by the degradation of land | ![]() | 41 |
7926267502 | Migration fields | Area from which a given city or place draws a majority of the in-migrants | ![]() | 42 |
7926285481 | Channelized Migration | The tendancy for migration to flow between areas that are socialy and economically alied by past migration patterns | ![]() | 43 |
7926353971 | Ravensteins laws of Migration | Most migrants move only a short distance. There is a process of absorption, whereby people immediately surrounding a rapidly growing town move into it and the gaps they leave are filled by other migrants. E.g how big cities are formed | 44 | |
7926422506 | Intevening Opprotunity | The presence of a nearer opprotunity that greatly diminishes the atractiveness of site farther away. Ex. A new job opprotunity opens up near you so you dont do to the one farther away. | 45 | |
7926481896 | Remittance | Human migration flows in which the movers have not choice but to relocate. Ex. Your family mowes to France. | 46 | |
7926514701 | Xeonphobia | Fear or dislike of foreigners significantly different from oneself. | 47 |
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