Chapter 3 vocabulary for Human Geography: People Place and Culture, Ninth Edition by Harm de Blij
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| Monies sent home to the family of a migrant workers p77 | ||
| Type of movement classified by short periods away from home p80 | ||
| Type of movement classified by longer periods away from home p80 | ||
| Type of movement classified by a degree of permanence. The migrant may never return "home" p80 | ||
| The local region within which people carry out daily activities (EX: workplace, home, school) p80 | ||
| Type of cyclic movement which is driven by elements of culture, tradition, and survival (EX: Bushmen) p80 | ||
| Type of periodic movement in which migrants move across borders to provide labor, usually in agriculture p80 | ||
| Specialized type of periodic movement in which pastoral farmers move livestock seasonally according to the availability of grazing pastures p80 | ||
| Type of periodic movemen in which those enlisted in the military serve tours of duty which can last several years p81 | ||
| Movement in which migrants cross national borders p81 | ||
| One who leaves their home country (out) p81 | ||
| One who enters the country (in) p81 | ||
| The influx of migrants to a country, adding to the country's population p81 | ||
| Migration occuring within national borders p81 | ||
| The imposition of authority or power, producing involuntary migration movements that cannot be understod based on theories p83 | ||
| Movement by choice p83 | ||
| Carried tens of millions of Africans from their homes to South America, the Carribean, and North America with huge loss of life to provide labor in European colonies p83 | ||
| British demographer; proposed the Laws of Immigration p84 | ||
| 1) Every migration flow generates a return or counter-migration. 2) The majority of migrants move a short distance. 3) Migrats who move longer distances tend to choose big-city destinations. 4) Urban residents are less migratory than inhabitants of rural areas. 5) Families are less likely to make intertional moves than young adults p84 | ||
| Predicts interaction between places on the basis of their population size and distance between them; assumes spatial interaction is directly related to populations and inversely to distance p84 | ||
| The conditions and perceptions that help the migrant decide to leave a place p85 | ||
| The circumstances that effectively attract a migrant to a certain locale from anonther p85 | ||
| The idea that a process or function declines as distance from its source increases p85 | ||
| The process of gradually migrating from on pace to another (EX: farm---> village----> town----> city) p85 | ||
| Opportunities met while migrating that pull migrants to another locale (EX: A.A. moving to St. Louis ad Cinncinati) p85 | ||
| A push/pull factor of migration. Migrants may or may not obtain visas legalizing their presence in the host country. Being deported is a consequence of illegal migration p86 | ||
| Being sent back home p86 | ||
| A push/pull factor concerning a migrant's need for a job and the availability of jobs in another country p86 | ||
| A push/pull factor concerning the relationship between global employers and mobal migrants. p86 | ||
| A push/pull factor defined by escape/expulsion p86 | ||
| A push/pull factor which influences those in areas of conflict to emigrate. In most cases, people do not return to their home country p86 | ||
| A push/pull factor in which natural disaster is the cause for migration p86 | ||
| A push/pull factor in which one migrates to preserve their culture p88 | ||
| Associated to push/pull factors as they have accelerated through globalization p88 | ||
| The connection between friends and families that encourages migration to a locale p88 | ||
| The process of a migrant arriving in a locale and then communcating with kin back home, creating a positive perception of the locale p88 | ||
| Swells in migration fom one origin to the same destination p88 | ||
| Occured haphazardly before 1500 in search of spices, fame, or exploration p89 | ||
| Migrants in search of spices, fame, or exploration | ||
| The physical process by which the colonizer takes over a place, putting its own government in charge, and bringing its own people to the place | ||
| Migrants going to a neigboring country to take advantage of short term economic opportunities, to reconnect with culture, or to escape war/political conflict p89 | ||
| Established by European colonialism; often coastal cities due to foreign investment | ||
| Those allowed by law to migrate to a country to fll a need for labor | ||
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