ap vocabulary Flashcards

7919271763	Migration	Form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location.	0
7919271764	Emigration	Migration from a location	1
7919271765	Immigration	Migration to a new location	2
7919271766	Net Migration	The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration.	3
7919271767	Circulation	Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis. Ex. Me going to school and then going home and then going back to school.	4
7919271768	Push Factor	Factors that induce people to leave old residences.	5
7919271769	Pull Factor	Factor that induces people to move to a new location.	6
7919271770	Refugees	People who are trying to escape dangers in their home countries	7
7919271771	Asylum	A place of retreat or security	8
7919271772	Intervening Obstacle	An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration.	9
7919271773	International Migration	Permanent movement from one country to another.	10
7919271774	Internal Migration	The movement of people from one defined area to another within a country.	11
7919271775	Inter-regional	Permanent movement from one region of a country to another.	12
7919271776	Intra-regional	Is the permanent movement within one region of a country.	13
7919271777	Voluntary migration	movement in which people relocate in response to perceived opportunity; not forced.	14
7919271778	Forced Migration	Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors.	15
7919271779	Wilbur Zelinsky	(born 1921) is recognized as one of America's most prominent cultural geographers	16
7919271780	Chain Migration	pattern of migration that develops when migrants move along and through kinship links	17
7919271781	Undocumented Immigrants	Immigrantes that come into a country and are without visa or authorization	18
7919271782	Quotas	Established limits by governments on the number of immigrants who can enter a country each year	19
7919271783	Brain Drain	Large-scale emigration by talented people.	20
7919271784	Guest Working	Immigrants who work in another country they are not residents of	21
7919271785	Counter urbanization	Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries.	22
7919271786	Gravity Model	A mathematical model that is used in a number of different types of spatial analysis	23
7919271787	Distance Decay	decline of activity or function with increasing distance from its point of origin	24
7919271788	Step Migration	Migration that follows a path of a series of stages or steps towards a final destination	25
7919271789	Counter Migration	the return of migrants to the regions from which they earlier emigrated	26
7919271790	Activity Space	places in a local area in which cyclic movement occurs	27
7919271791	Cyclic movement	trends in migration and other processes that have a clear cycle	28
7919271792	Commuting	The daily movement to or from a place of work or study.	29
7919271793	Seasonal Movement	Form of cyclic movement when a person moves temporarily because of a change in season.	30
7919271794	Periodic movement	Movement that involves temporary, recurrent relocation	31
7919271795	International Refugee	fleeing from one country to another	32
7919271796	Internally displaced person	someone who is forced to flee his or her home but who remains within his or her country's borders	33
7919271797	Permanent refugee	A refugee who wants to stay in a country permanently	34
7919271798	Temporary refugee	Status given to a refugee prior to receiving permanent residency in a new country	35
7919271799	Immigration Laws	Laws and regulations of a state designed specifically to control immigration into that state.	36
7919271800	Mobility	All types of movement from one location to another. Ex. A person who moves around, the act of moving around.	37
7919271801	Transnational Migrants	migrants who set up homes and/or work in more than one nation-state	38
7919271802	Suburbanization	The process of population movement from within towns and cities to the rural-urban fringe.	39
7919271803	Eco-Migration	Type of migration in which people move away from environmental disasters	40
7919271804	Migration Fields	the area from which a given city or place draws the majority of its immigrants.	41
7919271805	Channelized Migration	when one family member migrates to a new country and the rest of the family follows shortly after. Ex. If my mom moves to Canada for work and is there for a long time my family might move there too later on>	42
7919271806	Ravenstein's Laws of Migration	Laws of migration established in the 1980s based on studies carried out in the U.K.	43
7919271807	Intervening Opportunity	An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that helps migration.	44
7919271808	Remittance	Transfer of money by workers to people in the country from which they emigrated	45
7919271809	Transhumance	The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures.	46
7919271810	Xenophobia	Fear of foreigners	47