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| 5125515116 | Activity Space | The space within which daily life occurs. | 0 | |
| 5125222492 | Asylum Seeker | Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee. | 1 | |
| 5125230210 | Brain Drain | Large scale emigration by talented people. | 2 | |
| 5125237342 | Chain Migration | Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there. | 3 | |
| 5125247155 | Circular Migration | The temporary movement of a migrant worker between home and host countries to seek employment. | 4 | |
| 5125255914 | Circulation | Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis. | 5 | |
| 5125277208 | Counterurbanization | Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries. | 6 | |
| 5129621877 | Diaspora | The exile of an ethnic or racial group from their homeland. (Jews and Israel) | 7 | |
| 5125281291 | Desertification | Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions like excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting. Also known as semiarid land degradation. | 8 | |
| 5125289784 | Emigration | Migration from a location | 9 | |
| 5125292173 | Floodplain | An area subject to flooding during a given number of years according to historical trends. | 10 | |
| 5125295574 | Forced Migration | Permanent movement, compelled by cultural or environmental factors. | 11 | |
| 5125302746 | Guest Worker | Workers who migrate to the more developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of higher-paying jobs. | 12 | |
| 5125310819 | Immigration | Migration to a new location. | 13 | |
| 5125356042 | Internal Migration | Permanent movement within a particular country. | 14 | |
| 5125366311 | Internally Displaced Person (IDP) | Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an international border. | 15 | |
| 5125372356 | International Migration | Permanent movement from one country to another. | 16 | |
| 5125375527 | Interregional Migration | Permanent movement from one region of a country to another. | 17 | |
| 5125378993 | Intervening Obstacle | An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration. | 18 | |
| 5125472440 | Intervening Opportunity | The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away. | 19 | |
| 5125384054 | Intraregional Migration | Permanent movement within one region of a country. | 20 | |
| 5125387141 | Migration | A form of relocation diffusion that involves a permanent move to a new location. | 21 | |
| 5125396118 | Migration Transition | A change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition. | 22 | |
| 5125483541 | Migration Selectivity | The tendency for certain types of people (influenced by age, education and familiar ties) to move. | 23 | |
| 5125477265 | Migration Stream | A constant flow of migrants from the same origin to the same destination. | 24 | |
| 5125399280 | Mobility | All types of movements between locations. | 25 | |
| 5125411104 | Net Migration | The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration. | 26 | |
| 5129641859 | Periodic Movement | Motion that recurs over and over and the period of time required for each recurrence remains the same. | 27 | |
| 5125413222 | Pull Factor | A factor that induces people to move to a new location. | 28 | |
| 5125417563 | Push Factor | A factor that induces people to move out of their present location. | 29 | |
| 5125426412 | Quota | In reference to migration, a law that places maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year. | 30 | |
| 5125493620 | Ravenstein's Laws | The majority of migrants move short distances. Migrants who move longer distances tend to choose big city destinations. Urban residents are less migratory than people in rural areas. Families are less likely to make international moves than young adults | 31 | |
| 5125432890 | Refugee | Someone who is forced to migrate from their his or her home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of his or her race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion. | 32 | |
| 5125445377 | Remittance | Transfer of money by workers to people in the country from which they emigrated. | 33 | |
| 5125489281 | 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 | 34 | |
| 5125502140 | Time-contract Workers | A worker who comes to work in a foreign country for a fixed period of time. | 35 | |
| 5125511018 | Transhumance | The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures. | 36 | |
| 5125456107 | Unauthorized Immigrant | A person who enters a country without proper documents to do so. | 37 | |
| 5125461325 | Voluntary Migration | Permanent movement undertaken by choice. | 38 | |
| 5125552413 | U.S. Internal Migration Pattern |  | 39 |
