AP Flashcards

11298291085	center of population	average location of a person in a country You want the population to be centered because it suggests that services are available to all people in a country	0
11298291086	Interregional migration	Permanent movement from one region of the country to another ex: from rural areas to urban areas	1
11298291087	Intraregional migration	Permanent movement within one region of the country. ex: from rural areas to urban areas	2
11298291088	Forced Migration	Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors.	3
11298291089	Voluntary migration	Permanent movement undertaken by choice.	4
11298291090	International migration	Permanent movement from one country to another.	5
11298291091	Wilbur Zelinsky	Identified a migration transition	6
11298291092	emigration	Migration from a location	7
11298291093	Push Factors	Factors that induce people to leave old residences. ex: a natural disaster (too much water too little water), A refugee being forced to move because of armed conflict (war), being forced to migrate because of political reasons	8
11298291094	Pull factors	Factors that induce people to move to a new location. ex: asylum seekers: someone who migrated in hopes of being recognized as a refugee immigrants moving to the mountains, Seaside, warm climate people moving from their homes because of weather	9
11298291095	asylum seeker	Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee	10
11298291096	Brain drain	Large-scale emigration by talented people. ex: taking someone extremely talented/smart from another country and bringing them to yours with better offers.	11
11298291097	illegal aliens/undocumented residents	a foreign national who is living without authorization in a country of which they are not a citizen	12
11298291098	Suburbanization	The process of population movement from within towns and cities to the rural-urban fringe.	13
11298291099	Guest workers	Workers who migrate to the more developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern of Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of higher-paying jobs. They were only supposed to be there temporarily but ended up staying This no longer exists	14
11298291100	Refugees	People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion.	15
11298291101	Net migration	The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration.	16
11298291102	Gravity model	A model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service.	17
11298291103	Distance decay function		18
11298291104	counterurbanization		19