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| 7665005740 | migration | the permanent move to a new location | 0 | |
| 7665005741 | mobility | all types of movement between location | 1 | |
| 7665008649 | circulation | short term, repetitive or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis | 2 | |
| 7665008650 | emigration | migration from a location | 3 | |
| 7665011231 | immigration | migration to a location | 4 | |
| 7665011232 | net migration | the difference between the number of immigrants and number of emigrants | 5 | |
| 7665014356 | international migration | permanent move from one country to another | 6 | |
| 7665014357 | migration transition | change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produces the demographic transition | 7 | |
| 7665019093 | voluntary migration | permanent movement undertaken by choice | 8 | |
| 7665019094 | forced migration | permanent movement usually compelled by cultural factors | 9 | |
| 7665022177 | internal migration | permanent movement within a particular country | 10 | |
| 7665024742 | interregional migration | permanent movement from one region of a country to another | 11 | |
| 7665027072 | intraregional migration | permanent movement within one region of a country | 12 | |
| 7665029784 | counterurbanization | net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries | 13 | |
| 7665029785 | push factor | induces people to move out of their present location | 14 | |
| 7665033331 | pull factor | induces people to move into a new location | 15 | |
| 7665033332 | refugee | someone who has been forced to migrate to another country to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights or other disasters and cannot return for fear of persecution of religion, race, nationality, membership of a social group or political opinion | 16 | |
| 7665038867 | internally displaced person | someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an international border | 17 | |
| 7665038868 | asylum seeker | someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee | 18 | |
| 7665041701 | floodplain | an area subjected to flooding during a given number of years according to historical trends | 19 | |
| 7665041702 | desertification | degradation of land especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions such as excessive crop planting, animal grazing and tree cutting | 20 | |
| 7665045842 | intervening obstacle | an environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration | 21 | |
| 7665045843 | remittance | transfer of money by workers to people in the country from which they emigrated | 22 | |
| 7665050537 | unauthorized immigrants | a person who enters a country without proper documents to do so | 23 | |
| 7665050538 | quotas | a law that places a maximum limit on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year | 24 | |
| 7665052913 | brain drain | large scale emigration by talented people | 25 | |
| 7665056182 | chain migration | migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there | 26 | |
| 7665056183 | guest worker | term used for a worker who migrated to the developed countries of Northern and Western Europe usually from Southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa in search of a higher paying job | 27 | |
| 7665059892 | circular migration | temporary movement of a migrant worker between home and host countries to seek employment | 28 |
