AP Human Geography Rubenstein Chapter 3 Migration Kbat
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| 4788034990 | brain drain | Large scale emigration of talented and skilled individuals | 0 | |
| 4788034991 | chain migration (migration ladder) | A stream of people out of an area as first movers communicate with people back home and stimulate others to follow later. | 1 | |
| 4788034992 | circulation | Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis. | 2 | |
| 4788034993 | Counterurbanization | the movement of people out of urban areas to escape over crowding, pollution, and economic disadvantages. | 3 | |
| 4788034994 | Emigration | Migration from a location. | 4 | |
| 4788034995 | Floodplain | The area subject to flooding during a given number of years, according to historical trends. | 5 | |
| 4788034996 | Forced migration | Human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate. | 6 | |
| 4788034997 | Guest worker | A citizen of a usually poorer country who obtains a job in a Western European country | 7 | |
| 4788034998 | Immigration | Migration to a location. | 8 | |
| 4788034999 | Internal Migration | Permanent movement within a particular country | 9 | |
| 4788035000 | International Migration | Permanent movement from one country to another. | 10 | |
| 4788035001 | Interregional migration | Migration between regions | 11 | |
| 4788035002 | Intervening obstacle | Physical features that halt or slow migration from one place to another. An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration. | 12 | |
| 4788035003 | Intraregional migration | Permanent movement within one region of a country. | 13 | |
| 4788035004 | Migration | A form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location. | 14 | |
| 4788035005 | 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. | 15 | |
| 4788035006 | Mobility | All types of movement between location. | 16 | |
| 4788035007 | Net Migration | The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration. | 17 | |
| 4788035008 | Pull factors | Reasons that attract people to a new region. | 18 | |
| 4788035009 | Push factors | Encouragement for people to move from the region that they live in. | 19 | |
| 4788035010 | Quotas | In reference to migration, laws that place maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year. | 20 | |
| 4788035011 | Refugee | A person who has been forced to migrate and cannot return due to fear of persecution based on their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion | 21 | |
| 4788035012 | Unauthorized immigrants | People who enter a country without paper documents to do so. | 22 | |
| 4788035013 | Voluntary migration | Permanent movement undertaken by choice. | 23 | |
| 4788035014 | Asylum seeker | someone who migrates to another country in hopes of being recognized as a refugee | 24 | |
| 4788035015 | cotton belt | a region of the US South where cotton is the historic main crop, a region stretching from South Carolina to east Texas where most U.S. cotton was produced during the mid-1800s | 25 | |
| 4788035016 | Ravenstein's Laws | most migrants go a short distance; Most international migrants are men; Most immigrants are young adults; Families rarely migrate outside their country; Most immigrants migrate for economic reasons | 26 | |
| 4788035017 | Rust belt | northeastern and midwestern states of US in which heavy industry has declined, ..., ..., Northern Industrial States of the United States, including Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania, in which heavy industry was once the dominant economic activity. In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, these states lost much of their economic base to economically attractive regions of the USA and to countries where labor was cheaper, leaving old machinery to rust in the moist northern climate. | 27 | |
| 4788035018 | Step migration | Long-distance migration done in stages. | 28 | |
| 4788035019 | suburbanization | The process of population movement from within towns and cities to the rural-urban fringe. | 29 | |
| 4788035020 | Sun Belt | southern and southwest US | 30 | |
| 4788035021 | Time-contract workers | A person recruited for a fixed period of time to work somewhere, usually a mine or plantation | 31 | |
| 4788035022 | transhumance | The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures. | 32 | |
| 4788035023 | urbanization | movement of people from rural areas to cities | 33 |
