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| 15184900826 | Migration | Form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location. | 0 | |
| 15184904130 | Voluntary Migration | movement in which people relocate in response to perceived opportunity; not forced. | 1 | |
| 15184907867 | Push Factor | Negative factors. Circumstances, events, or conditions | 2 | |
| 15184911124 | pull factors | Positive conditions and perceptions that effectively attract people to new locales from other areas | 3 | |
| 15184924544 | Economic Push and Pull Factors | Most common reason is lack of opportunities. People move to places with more potential | 4 | |
| 15184938357 | Developing countries | - semi-permanent migration - ex) Africa and Asia - lots of temporary opportunity -emigrate from south and east Asia - USA is leading receiver | 5 | |
| 15184952689 | Developed Countries | - USA and Canada - Offer European prospects for economic development - people come from Latin America and Asia - Migrants are seeking economic opportunities - refugees are fleeing and coming into these countries | 6 | |
| 15184974167 | Remittances | money migrant send back to family and friends in their home countries, often in cash, forming an important part of the economy in many poorer countries | 7 | |
| 15184982346 | Social Push/Pull Factors | - Discrimination and persecution - move to places that are safer - move to places with kinship ties or links with relatives | 8 | |
| 15185011809 | Political Push/Pull Factors | Pull: More self-government freedom. Push: Little self-government, under the watchful eye of the monarch. | 9 | |
| 15185018664 | environmental push/pull factors | -push: natural disaster, pollution, unsanitary water, diseases, cold weather -pull: warm climate, beaches, tropical landscapes, mountains | 10 | |
| 15185048674 | Demographic Push and Pull Factors | -too many men per each women, leaving you without someone to marry. - moving to a retirement community where it is more afforable | 11 | |
| 15185093928 | Wilbur Zelinsky's Model of Migration | Migration trend follow demographic transition stages. People become increasingly mobile as industrialization develops. More international migration is seen in stage 2 as migrants search for more space and opportunities already in stages 3 and 4. Stage- 4 countries show less emigration and more intraregional migration. | 12 | |
| 15185104229 | intervening obstacle | -barriers that make reaching a person's desired destination harder to get to - economic, social, political, or environmental | 13 | |
| 15185118611 | Lee's Model of Migration | Factors affecting migration in terms of the negative and positive migration |  | 14 |
| 15185124329 | Intervening Opportunities | The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away. | 15 | |
| 15185128927 | Ravenstein's Laws of Migration | A set of 11 "laws" that can be organized into three groups: the reasons why migrants move, the distance they typically move, and their characteristics. | 16 | |
| 15185131498 | short distance | -The further apart 2 places are, the less likely people will migrate between them -expanded this theory to time-distance decay | 17 | |
| 15185138612 | Urban Areas | -Migrants will settle here - more opportunity | 18 | |
| 15185145518 | gravity model of migration | Distance Decay + the believe in the greater pull in larger communities + assumption people are more likely to come from larger places | 19 | |
| 15185154366 | step migration | migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages | 20 | |
| 15185157493 | Rural to Urban | - Industrial Revolution -> Cities needed more people - Within countries (India) or between neighboring countries (Syria and Germany) | 21 | |
| 15185170554 | counter migration | the return of migrants to the regions from which they earlier emigrated. ex:) USA back to Mexico | 22 | |
| 15185174774 | Youth | - most migrants are 20-45 years old - no established jobs or homes | 23 | |
| 15185181917 | Gender Patterns | Most international migrants are male, and internal are female. | 24 | |
| 15185193197 | Effects of Colonization | -European languages, religion, and culture spread -diffusion of goods and ideas - indigenous population got wiped out | 25 | |
| 15185203229 | Forced Migration | Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors. | 26 | |
| 15185209454 | Forced Migration of Native Americans | -Political Migration -moved people of land so other people could occupy it | 27 | |
| 15185215848 | Refugee | Forced to migrate to a new country due to political/ environmental factors and cannot return due to fear of persecution. ex:) refugees from Syria moving to Turkey | 28 | |
| 15185219477 | Internally Displaced Person (IDP) | Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an international border. Ex:) Syria to other parts of Syria | 29 | |
| 15185233547 | Asylum Seeker | Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee. Ex:) Syrians seeking asylum in Jordan | 30 | |
| 15185241429 | Guest Worker | a foreign laborer living and working temporarily in another country | 31 | |
| 15185243533 | Chain Migration | migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there | 32 | |
| 15185243534 | ethnic enclave | a small area occupied by a distinctive minority culture | 33 | |
| 15185274556 | USA Immigration at Independence (1700s) | - 1500 to 1700, Europenas colonized North america - 1700, North america was claimed by England, France, and Spain | 34 | |
| 15185285611 | 19th Century US immigration | - 1600 to 1808, Enslaved Africans - 1808 to 1890, North and West Europre | 35 | |
| 15185295861 | recent US immigration | - 1890 to 1914, South and West Europe - 1945 to present, Latin America and Asia | 36 | |
| 15185308991 | Interregional Migration | Permanent movement from one region of a country to another. ex:) rural to urban for jobs | 37 | |
| 15185314593 | Population Center | The average location of everyone in the country, the "center of population gravity" | 38 | |
| 15185318841 | 1790 (Atlantic Coast) | - few colonists volunteered from coast because they depended on shipping links with Europe to receive products - Appalachian Mountains and native america resistance stopped expansion westwards | 39 | |
| 15185354350 | 1800-1840: Crossing the Appalachians | -Eerie Canal=enabled people to travel inexpensively by boat between NYC and the Great Lakes(MI) -transportation in general improved | 40 | |
| 15185362775 | 1850-1890: Rushing to the gold | -population shifted west to California (pull=Gold Rush) -passed over Great Plains- "unfit for farming" | 41 | |
| 15185368443 | 1900-1940: Filling in the Great Plains | -Europe to East Coast, East Coast to U.S. West -immigrants to Great Plains- advances in agricultural technology (railroads /well-drilling /steel plow /barbed wire) | 42 | |
| 15185390505 | 1950-2010: Moving South | -population center moved west and south (jobs, warmth) | 43 | |
| 15185400491 | Interreregional Migration to Canada | - Alberta: largest net in migration - Quebec: largest net out migration | 44 | |
| 15185411422 | Interreregional Migration to China | - Rural to Urban - Government has lifted some restrictions | 45 | |
| 15185416127 | Interreregional Migration to Brazil | - Sparsely populated - capital moved 600 m away from Atlantic coast - net out migration in coast - net in migration in interior areas | 46 | |
| 15185430219 | Interreregional Migration to Russia | - clustered in West and Europeans parts - opened up factories - forced people to undertake in interregional migration | 47 | |
| 15185445588 | The Great Migration from the South | - millions of African Americans from the south to cities in other parts of the country to escape racial discrimination and violence | 48 | |
| 15185450856 | Migration to the South | - Government policies made it easy after World War II - decreased # of jobs in North - Invention of air conditioning made it easier to live here | 49 | |
| 15185808043 | Homestead Act of 1862 | Act that allowed a settler to acquire land by living on it for 5 years, improving it, and paying a nominal fee of about $30 | 50 | |
| 15185815171 | Polices Discouraging Immigration | - Makes it hard to enter country - ex:) education standard and work restrictions | 51 | |
| 15185821064 | xenophobia | a fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers | 52 | |
| 15185823713 | Unauthorized immigrants | People who enter a country without proper documents. * main reason to enter USA is jobs* | 53 | |
| 15185828305 | US Quota Laws | maximum limit on the number of people who can immigrate to the US (not including refugees.) No limit on professional workers or people with a citizenship to any Latin American country | 54 | |
| 15185837089 | Brain Drain | the loss of highly educated and skilled workers to other countries | 55 | |
| 15185842778 | Effects on Recieving country | - usually positive -new foods, languages, entertainment, and religion | 56 | |
| 15185852654 | remittance | transfer of money by workers to people in the country from which they emigrated | 57 | |
| 15185855350 | US and mexico border issues | - majority of Americans want more effective border control. they also want immigrates because they take the jobs no one wants - they fear officials could identify and deport unauthorized immigrants | 58 | |
| 15185865759 | Europe's Immigration Issue | - immigrants compete with natives for jobs - strains on services such as schools and hospitals - lack of understanding and support for host countries cultural traditions | 59 |
