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15215944351	activity space	The area within which people move freely on their rounds of regular activity	0
15215965639	amnesty	a general pardon for an offense against a government; in general, any act of forgiveness or absolution	1
15215968724	asylum seeker	someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee	2
15215978140	brain drain	the emigration of highly trained or intelligent people from a particular country.	3
15215981152	chain migration	migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there	4
15215985227	circulation	Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis.	5
15215989114	cotton belt	area of high cotton production	6
15216002084	counterurbanization	net migration from urban to rural areas	7
15216006004	emigration	movement of individuals out of an area	8
15216009170	floodplain	The area subject to flooding during a given number of years according to historical trends.	9
15216012263	forced migration	permanent movement, usually compelled by cultural factors	10
15216022282	guest workers	legal immigrant who has work visa, usually short term	11
15216026345	immigration	Moving into a population	12
15216038568	intercontinental migration	Permanent movement from one country to a different country on the same continent.	13
15216049720	internally displaced people (IDP)	Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an international border	14
15216063841	internal migration	permanent movement within the same country	15
15216070436	international migration	Permanent movement from one country to another.	16
15216835896	interregional migration	movement from one region to another within a country	17
15216841828	intervening obstacle	An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration.	18
15216849968	Intervening Opportunities	The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away.	19
15216918979	Intraregional Migration	movement within one region	20
15216922017	migration	Form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location.	21
15216930333	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.	22
15216947866	mobility	All types of movement from one location to another.	23
15216952396	net migration	The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration.	24
15216958424	pull factors	A factor that draws or attracts people to another location	25
15216962346	push factors	a factor that causes people to leave their homelands and migrate to another	26
15216965500	Quota	laws that set limitation on the number of people who immigrate to a country each year	27
15216987480	refugees	A person who has been forced to leave their country	28
15217000106	remittances	Money migrants send back to family and friends in their home countries, often in cash, forming an important part of the economy in many poorer countries	29
15217008810	rust belt	industrial states with a decline in economy due to factories closing and people moving away	30
15217013946	sun belt	The South and Southwest regions of the United States.	31
15217023522	time-contract workers	recruited for work but for only a fixed period of time by contract	32
15217027402	Unauthorized immigrants	People who enter a country without proper documents.	33
15217032611	Undocumented Immigrants	People who enter a country without proper documents.	34
15217048309	Voluntary Migration	Permanent movement undertaken by choice.	35