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| 15215944351 | activity space | The area within which people move freely on their rounds of regular activity | 0 | |
| 15215965639 | amnesty | a general pardon for an offense against a government; in general, any act of forgiveness or absolution | 1 | |
| 15215968724 | asylum seeker | someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee | 2 | |
| 15215978140 | brain drain | the emigration of highly trained or intelligent people from a particular country. | 3 | |
| 15215981152 | chain migration | migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there | 4 | |
| 15215985227 | circulation | Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis. | 5 | |
| 15215989114 | cotton belt | area of high cotton production | 6 | |
| 15216002084 | counterurbanization | net migration from urban to rural areas | 7 | |
| 15216006004 | emigration | movement of individuals out of an area | 8 | |
| 15216009170 | floodplain | The area subject to flooding during a given number of years according to historical trends. | 9 | |
| 15216012263 | forced migration | permanent movement, usually compelled by cultural factors | 10 | |
| 15216022282 | guest workers | legal immigrant who has work visa, usually short term | 11 | |
| 15216026345 | immigration | Moving into a population | 12 | |
| 15216038568 | intercontinental migration | Permanent movement from one country to a different country on the same continent. | 13 | |
| 15216049720 | internally displaced people (IDP) | Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an international border | 14 | |
| 15216063841 | internal migration | permanent movement within the same country | 15 | |
| 15216070436 | international migration | Permanent movement from one country to another. | 16 | |
| 15216835896 | interregional migration | movement from one region to another within a country | 17 | |
| 15216841828 | intervening obstacle | An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration. | 18 | |
| 15216849968 | Intervening Opportunities | The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away. | 19 | |
| 15216918979 | Intraregional Migration | movement within one region | 20 | |
| 15216922017 | migration | Form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location. | 21 | |
| 15216930333 | Migration Transition | Change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition. | 22 | |
| 15216947866 | mobility | All types of movement from one location to another. | 23 | |
| 15216952396 | net migration | The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration. | 24 | |
| 15216958424 | pull factors | A factor that draws or attracts people to another location | 25 | |
| 15216962346 | push factors | a factor that causes people to leave their homelands and migrate to another | 26 | |
| 15216965500 | Quota | laws that set limitation on the number of people who immigrate to a country each year | 27 | |
| 15216987480 | refugees | A person who has been forced to leave their country | 28 | |
| 15217000106 | remittances | Money migrants send back to family and friends in their home countries, often in cash, forming an important part of the economy in many poorer countries | 29 | |
| 15217008810 | rust belt | industrial states with a decline in economy due to factories closing and people moving away | 30 | |
| 15217013946 | sun belt | The South and Southwest regions of the United States. | 31 | |
| 15217023522 | time-contract workers | recruited for work but for only a fixed period of time by contract | 32 | |
| 15217027402 | Unauthorized immigrants | People who enter a country without proper documents. | 33 | |
| 15217032611 | Undocumented Immigrants | People who enter a country without proper documents. | 34 | |
| 15217048309 | Voluntary Migration | Permanent movement undertaken by choice. | 35 |
