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| 89750074 | remittances | monies migrants send home to family | |
| 89750075 | cyclic movement | short periods away from home | |
| 89750076 | periodic movement | long periods way from home | |
| 89750077 | migration | degree of permanence across signifcant distances in which the mover may never return home | |
| 89750078 | activity spaces | daily rountine moves within a local area | |
| 89750079 | nomadism | type of cyclic movement that is a matter of survival, culture, and tradition | |
| 89750080 | migrant labor | a type of periodic movement in which involves millions of workers in the U.S. and tens of millions worldwide | |
| 89750081 | trans-humance | a system of pastoral farming in which ranchers move livestock according to the seasonal availabiliy of pastures, it is also a type of periodic movement | |
| 89750082 | military service | a type of periodic movement in which as many as 10 million U.S. citizens are moved to new locations where they will spend tours of duty that can last several years | |
| 89750083 | international migration | movement across country borders (also called external migration) | |
| 89750084 | internal migration | migration that occurs within a single country's borders | |
| 89750085 | forced migration | the imposition of authority or power, producing involutary migration movements that cannot be understood based on theories of choice | |
| 89750086 | voluntary migration | after a migrant weighs options and choices and can be analyzed and understood as a series of options or choices that result in movement | |
| 89750087 | laws of migration | 1.every migration flow generates a return or counter-migration 2.the majority of migrants move a short distance 3.migrants who move larger 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 international moves than young adults | |
| 89750088 | gravity model | predicts interactions between places on the basis of their population size and distance between them | |
| 89750089 | push factors | conditions and perceptions that help the migrant decide to leave a place | |
| 89750090 | pull factors | the circumstances that effectively attract the migrant to certain locales from other places-the decision of where to go | |
| 89750091 | distance decay | the effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction | |
| 89750092 | step migration | streams that appear on maps as long, unbroken routes in fact consist of a series of stages | |
| 89750093 | intervening opportunity | when African Americans by the tens of thousands migrated northward after World War 1 to seek work in growing cities like Chicago and Cleveland | |
| 89750094 | kinship links | a migrant is often pulled to places where family and frends have already found success | |
| 89750095 | chain migration | when the migrant chooses a destination and writes, calls, or communicates through others to tell family and friends at home about the new place | |
| 89750096 | immigration waves | swells in migration from one origin to the same distination | |
| 89750097 | global-scale | interactions occurring at the scale of the world | |
| 89750098 | explorers | people examining a region that is unknown to them | |
| 89750099 | colonization | a physical process where the colonizer takes over another place, putting its own government in charge and either moving its own people into the place or bringing the indentured outsiders to gain control of the people and the land | |
| 89750100 | regional scale | interactions occurrring within a region | |
| 89750101 | islands of development | coastal cities because their establishment was based on access to trade | |
| 89750102 | guest workers | legal immigrants who has a work visa, usually short term | |
| 89750103 | refugee | people who have fled their country because of political persecution and seek asylum in another country | |
| 89750104 | internal refugees | people who have been displaced with in their own countries and do not cross international borders as they flee | |
| 89750105 | international refugees | people who have crossed one or more international boundaries during their dislocation, searching for asylum in a different country | |
| 89750106 | asylum | shelter and protection in one state for refugees from another state | |
| 89750107 | immigration laws | laws that restrict or allow migration of certain groups into a country; established to prevent the immigration of Chinese people to California | |
| 89750108 | quotas | limit the number of migrants from each region into a country; permits the emigration to the U.S. of 3 percent of the number of its nationals living the the U.S. in 1910 | |
| 89750109 | selective immigration | individuals with certain backgrounds are barred from entering |
