AP Flashcards

11291411564	Forced Migration	Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors.	0
11291411565	Suburbanization	A population shift from central urban areas into suburbs, resulting in the formation of urban sprawl	1
11291411566	Asylum seeker	Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee	2
11291411567	net migration	The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration.	3
11291411568	Refugee	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	4
11291411569	emigration	migration from a location	5
11291411570	Intraregional migration	Permanent movement within one region of a country.	6
11291411571	intervening obstacle	Environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration	7
11291411572	International migration	Permanent movement from one country to another.	8
11291411573	Pull factor	A factor that induces people to move to a new location	9
11291411574	Interregional migration	Permanent movement within one region of a country.	10
11291411575	Circulation	Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis.	11
11291411576	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.	12
11291411577	Push factor	a factor that induces people to leave old residences	13
11291411578	Immigration	migration to a new location	14
11291411579	Urbanization	An increase in the percentage of the number of people living in urban settlements	15
11291411580	Chain migration	migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there	16
11291411581	counterurbanization	Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries.	17
11291411582	Internal migration	Permanent movement within a particular country	18
11291411583	Mobility	All types of movement between location	19
11291411584	Guest worker	A term once 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.	20
11291411585	Distance decay function	The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.	21
11291411586	Brain drain	Large-scale emigration by talented people.	22
11291411587	migration transition	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.	23
11291411588	Voluntary migration	Permanent movement undertaken by choice.	24