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| 5312682292 | migration | A form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location |  | 0 |
| 5312682293 | emigration | Migration from a location |  | 1 |
| 5312683336 | immigration | Migration to a new location |  | 2 |
| 5312683337 | net migration | The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration. |  | 3 |
| 5312684874 | circulation | Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis. |  | 4 |
| 5312684875 | push factor | Factors that induce people to leave old residences. |  | 5 |
| 5312686201 | pull factor | Factor that induces people to move to a new location. |  | 6 |
| 5312686202 | refugees | People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion. |  | 7 |
| 5312762771 | asylum | place of refuge or safety |  | 8 |
| 5312689717 | intervening obstacle | An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration. |  | 9 |
| 5312690968 | international migration | Permanent movement from one country to another. |  | 10 |
| 5312691730 | internal migration | Permanent Movement within a particular country. | 11 | |
| 5312695200 | inter-regional migration | Permanent movement from one region of a country to another |  | 12 |
| 5312698188 | intraregional migration | Permanent movement within one region of a country. |  | 13 |
| 5312702624 | voluntary migration | Permanent movement undertaken by choice. |  | 14 |
| 5312702625 | forced migration | Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors. |  | 15 |
| 5312703972 | Wilbur Zelinsky | geographer associated with migration transition--change in the migration pattern in a society that results from the social and economic changes that produce the demographic transition. Stage 2--international. Stage 3&4--internal |  | 16 |
| 5312703973 | chain migration | migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there |  | 17 |
| 5312709497 | unauthorized immigrants | People who enter a country without proper documents to do so |  | 18 |
| 5312709498 | quotas | In reference to migration, laws that place maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year. |  | 19 |
| 5312711005 | brain drain | Large-scale emigration by talented people. |  | 20 |
| 5312711904 | guest workers | Workers who migrate to the more developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern of Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of higher-paying jobs. |  | 21 |
| 5312714088 | counterurbanization | Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries. |  | 22 |
| 5312714873 | gravity model | A model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service. |  | 23 |
| 5312714874 | distance decay | The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. |  | 24 |
| 5312717486 | step migration | Migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village and later to a town and city |  | 25 |
| 5312719104 | counter migration | migration back to an original area in which people had left |  | 26 |
| 5312719105 | activity space | 27 | ||
| 5312720826 | cyclic movement | The seasonal migration of livestock to areas where food is more available. |  | 28 |
| 5312720827 | commuting | travel for the purpose of getting to and from work (or school). |  | 29 |
| 5312722361 | seasonal movement | migration | | 30 |
| 5312723377 | periodic movement | motion that recurs over and over and the period of time required for each recurrence remains the same |  | 31 |
| 5312726607 | transhumance | The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures. |  | 32 |
| 5312727930 | international refugee | Refugees who have crossed one or more international boundaries during their dislocation, searching for asylum in a different country. |  | 33 |
| 5312730240 | internally displaced person | A person who is forced out of the home region due to war, political or social unrest, environmental problems, etc., but who does not cross any international boundary |  | 34 |
| 5312731095 | permanent refugee | Refugee who does not return to their country of origin and is given permanent residence status in the new country. |  | 35 |
| 5312732463 | temporary refugee | the status given to a refugee prior to receiving permanent residency in a new country (or one who is encamped in a host country while waiting for resettlement) |  | 36 |
| 5312733982 | immigration laws | laws and regulations of a state designed specifically to control immigration into the state |  | 37 |
| 5312733983 | mobility | All types of movement from one location to another. |  | 38 |
| 5312735122 | transnational migrants | the movements of groups of people who maintain ties to their homelands after they have migrated |  | 39 |
| 5312736199 | suburbanization | Movement of upper and middle-class people from urban core areas to the surrounding outskirts to escape pollution as well as deteriorating social conditions (perceived and actual). In North America, the process began in the early nineteenth century and became a mass phenomenon by the second half of the twentieth century. The process of population movement from within towns and cities to the rural-urban fringe. |  | 40 |
| 5312736200 | Eco-migration | Type of migration in which people move away from environmental disasters |  | 41 |
| 5312737981 | migration fields | the area from which a given city or place draws the majority of its in-migrants |  | 42 |
| 5312739960 | channelized migration | The tendency for migration to flow between areas that are socially and economically allied by past migration patterns, by economic and trade connections, or by some other affinity | 43 | |
| 5312743152 | Ravenstein's Laws of Migration | 44 | ||
| 5312746040 | intervening oppertunity | Many migrants encounter an opportunity along their migration stream that keeps them from getting to the metropolis that impelled them to move in the first place. | 45 | |
| 5312746041 | remittance | Resources transferred from migrants working abroad to individuals, families, and institutions in their country of origin. |  | 46 |
