94770379 | cyclic movement | movement involving shorter periods away from home. this type of movement begins at home base and bring the migrant back to it. Most people have a daily routine that brings them to certain places and back home. These moves create spaces geographers call activity spaces | |
94770380 | periodic movement | involves longer periods away from home, but still going home nonetheless | |
94770381 | migration | movement resulting in permanent relocation across significant distances | |
94770382 | activity spaces | spaces created by movement around certain areas (for example, areas created by going to work, the grocery store, to home, etc.) | |
94770383 | nomadism | a matter of survival, culture, and tradition in which a group of people go from place to place in search of food and shelter | |
94770384 | migrant labor | when people come to a country in search of employment | |
94770385 | transhumance | a system of pastoral farming in which ranchers move livestock according to seasonal availability of pastures. Its periodic because it involves a long period of residential relocation | |
94770387 | internal migration | migration that occurs within a single country's borders | |
94770388 | emigration | migration out of a country | |
94770389 | immigration | migration into a country | |
94770390 | forced migration | involves the imposition of authority or power, producing involuntary migration movements that cannot be understood based on theories of choice. | |
94770391 | voluntary migration | migration after a migrant weights options and choices | |
94770392 | established by british demographer Ernst Ravenstein: 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 chose 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 | laws of migration | |
94770393 | gravity model | interaction between places on the basis of their population size and distance between them | |
94770394 | push factor | the conditions and perceptions that help the migrant decide to leave a place | |
94770395 | pull factor | the circumstances that effectively attract the migrant to certain locales from other places—the decision where to go | |
94770396 | distance decay | the effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction. the longer the distance, the less likely someone is to travel there | |
94770397 | step migration | migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for examples, from farm to nearby village and later to town and city | |
94770398 | intervening opportunity | the presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away | |
94770399 | kinship links | a pull factor in which a migrant is influenced by success of friends or family in other countries | |
94770400 | chain migration | created by migrants moving along and through kinship links, this occurs when the migrant chooses a destination and writes, calls, or communicates through others to tell family and friends at home about the new place. This encourages further migration | |
94770401 | immigration waves | swells in migration from one origin to the same destination, usually created by chain migration | |
94770402 | global-scale migration | migration from one part of the globe to another (for example, the colonization that occurred in the late 1400s to early 1600s by Europeans) | |
94774402 | colonization | a physical process whereby the colonizer takes over another place, putting its own government in charge and either moving its own government in charge and either moving its own people in to the place or bringing in indentured outsiders to gain control over the people and the land | |
94774404 | islands of development | often coastal cities because their establishment was based on access to trade. They are places within a region or country where most foreign investment goes, where the vast majority of paying jobs are located, and where infrastructure is concentrated. there are many jobs there | |
94774405 | internal migration flows | migration within a nation | |
94774406 | guest workers | A foreigner who is permitted to work in a country on a temporary basis, as for farm labor | |
94774407 | United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees | UN committee that oversees all things to do with refugees | |
94774408 | refugee | a person who has a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion | |
94774411 | asylum | the right to protection in the first country in which the refugee arrives | |
94774412 | quotas | established limits by governments on the number of immigrants who can enter a country per year | |
94774413 | selective immigration | when a country controls the type of people that immigrate to its country | |
94774414 | asylum seeker | a refugee that seeks asylum | |
94774415 | brain drain | when a countries smartest, most well educated people leave a country for another | |
94774416 | repatriation | the process of returning to one's country | |
94775638 | diaspora | the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture). for example, with jews, the dispersion of the Jews outside Israel; from the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 587-86 BC when they were exiled to Babylonia up to the present time | |
94775639 | Maghreb | A region of northwest Africa comprising the coastlands and the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia | |
94775640 | remittances | Monies that migrants send home to family in other countries | |
94775641 | migration selectivity | certain individuals are more likely to migrate based on their personal characteristics, including age, education, and other socio-demographic characteristics | |
94775643 | migration counterstream | when a migration stream develops, people move in the opposite direction. ex. people unhappy with their moves. kids who go to college and then go back home | |
114705735 | US immigration policy favors reunification of families and importing immigrants with skills that are not already had by current US citizens | U.S. immigration policy & goals | |
114705736 | internally displaced persons | internal refugees | |
115815473 | green card lottery | The Diversity Immigrant Visa program is a United States congressionally-mandated lottery program for receiving a United States Permanent Resident Card | |
159965263 | their population size and distance between them | The gravity model predicts interaction between places on the basis of: | |
159965264 | Africa | Which continent is most severely afflicted by dislocation? | |
159965265 | True | True or false: Nomadism is a type of cyclic movement. |
Chapter 3: Migration
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