Vocab words for chapter 3.
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| 201535993 | Remmitances | Supplies and money sent home by people working somewhere else to support their familiy | |
| 201535994 | Cyclic movement | trends in migration and other processes that have a clear cycle | |
| 201535995 | Activity space | the space within which daily activity occurs | |
| 201535996 | Nomadism | Movement among a definite set of places- often a form of cyclic movement. | |
| 201535997 | Periodic movement | motion that recurs over and over and the period of time required for each recurrence remains the same | |
| 201535998 | Migrant labor | a common type of periodic movemetn involving millions of worker in the US and tens of millions of workers worldwide who cross internationl borders in search of employment and become immigrants, in many instances | |
| 201535999 | Transhumance | The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures. | |
| 201536000 | Military service | another common form of periodic movement involving as many as 10 million US citizens in a given year, including military personnel and their families, who are moved to new locations where they will spend tours of duty lasting up to several years | |
| 201536001 | Migration | the movement of persons from one country or locality to another | |
| 201536002 | International migration | Permanent movement from one country to another. | |
| 201536003 | Internal migration | Permanent movement within a particular country. | |
| 201536004 | Forced migration | Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors. | |
| 201536005 | Voluntary migration | Permanent movement undertaken by choice. | |
| 201536006 | Laws of migration | CREATED BY ERNEST RAVENTSTEIN: 1)Every migration flow generates a return or countermigration. 2)The majority of migrants move a short distance. 3)Migrants who move longer distances tend to choose big-city destinations. 4)Urband residents are less migratory than inhabitants of rural areas. 5)Families are less likely to make international moves than you adults. | |
| 201536007 | 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. | |
| 201536008 | Push factors | negative conditions and perceptions that induce people to leave their adobe and migrate to a new location | |
| 201536009 | Pull factors | a factor that draws or attracts people to another location | |
| 201536010 | Distance decay | The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. | |
| 201536011 | 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 | |
| 201536012 | Intervening opportunity | The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away, The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away. | |
| 201536013 | Kinship links | types of push or pull factors that influence a migrant's decision to go where family or friends have already found success | |
| 201536014 | Chain migration | migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there | |
| 201536015 | Immigration wave | Phenomenon whereby different patterns of chain migration build upon one another to create a swell in migration from one origin to the same destination. | |
| 201536016 | explorers | a person examining a region that is unknown to them | |
| 201536017 | Colonization | system of settling new lands that remain under the government of their native land | |
| 201536018 | Islands of development | Place built up by a government or corporation to attract foreign investment and which has relatively high concentrations of paying jobs and infrastructure | |
| 201536019 | 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. | |
| 201536020 | 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. | |
| 201536021 | Internal refugees | people who have been displaced within their own countries and do not cross international borders as they flee | |
| 201536022 | International refugees | refugees who have crossed 1 or more international boundaries during their dislocation | |
| 201536023 | Asylum | a shelter from danger or hardship | |
| 201536024 | Immigration laws | laws and regulations of a state designed specifically to control immigration into the state | |
| 201536025 | Quotas | established limits by governments on the number of immigrants who can enter a country each year | |
| 201536026 | Selective immigration | Process to control immigration in which individuals with certain backgrounds (i.e. criminal records, poor health, or subversive activities) are barred from immigrating |
