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| 7619049694 | Asylum seeker | someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee |  | 0 |
| 7619051852 | Topological space | the perception that one place is closer than another due to familiarity with the place |  | 1 |
| 7619054822 | Voluntary migration | permanent movement undertaken by choice |  | 2 |
| 7619056577 | Brain drain | a large scale emigration of talented people |  | 3 |
| 7619058251 | Unauthorized immigrants | people who enter a country without proper documentation to do so. |  | 4 |
| 7619063228 | Chain migration | migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there. |  | 5 |
| 7619072942 | Refugees | people who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, or membership in a social group or political opinion. |  | 6 |
| 7619080649 | Quotas | in reference to migration, laws that place maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year. |  | 7 |
| 7619084112 | Counterurbanization | net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries. |  | 8 |
| 7619087464 | Pull factor | a factor that induces, or attracts, people to move to a new location. |  | 9 |
| 7619089552 | Push factor | a factor that induces people to leave old residences. |  | 10 |
| 7619093357 | Emigration | migration from a location (exiting) |  | 11 |
| 7619094954 | Net migration | the difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration. |  | 12 |
| 7619097323 | Floodplain | the area subject to flooding during a given number of years, according to historical trends. |  | 13 |
| 7619100854 | Mobility | all types of movement between locations |  | 14 |
| 7619103218 | Forced migration | permanent movement, usually compelled by cultural factors. |  | 15 |
| 7619106077 | Migration transition | a 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. |  | 16 |
| 7619110693 | Guest worker | a term once used for a worker to migrated to the developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of a higher-paying job. |  | 17 |
| 7619118636 | Migration | a form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location. |  | 18 |
| 7619121040 | Immigration | migration to a new location (moving in). |  | 19 |
| 7619122962 | Intraregional migration | permanent movement within one region of a country. |  | 20 |
| 7619125455 | Interregional migration | permanent movement from one region of a country to another. |  | 21 |
| 7619127038 | Internal migration | permanent movement within a particular country |  | 22 |
| 7619129741 | International migration | permanent movement from one country to another. |  | 23 |
| 7619133444 | Internally displaced person | someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an international border. |  | 24 |
| 7619138770 | Intervening obstacle | an environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration. |  | 25 |
| 7619142602 | Step migration | migration to a destination that does not happen all at once but in a series of steps. |  | 26 |
| 7619145036 | Friction of distance | The farther away a place is, the more difficult it is to get there. |  | 27 |
| 7619149092 | Distance decay | the diminishing in importance, and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. |  | 28 |
| 7619152252 | Relocation diffusion | the spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another. |  | 29 |
| 7619155609 | Intervening opportunity | the existence of a closer, less expensive, or more attractive option that arises during migration so as to interrupt the migration process. |  | 30 |
