AP VOCAB CHPT 3 Flashcards

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