2.2 Vocab Flashcards
the interaction between two places can be determined by the product of the population of both places, divided by the square of their distance from one another
Gravity Model
foreign national who is permitted to live and work temporarily in a host country.
legal immigrant who has work visa, usually short term
guest worker
The illegal trade of human beings, a modern-day form of slavery, for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation, forced labor, or involuntary military combat.
Human Trafficking
migration into a place, the physical movement of people from one place to another
Immigration
The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1,000 live births in a society.
Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)
the movement of people from one defined area to another within a country.
human movement within a nation-state
Internal Migration
Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons to a refugee but has not migrated across an international border.
Internally Displaced Person
The permanent movement from one country to another.
International Migration
Permanent movement from one region of a country to another.
Interregional Migration
a environmental or cultural feature that hinders (delays, creates difficulties) for migration.
Intervening Obstacle
an environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that helps migration
Intervening Opportunity
the permanent movement within one region of a country
Intraregional Migration
a model that accounts for push/pull factors and intervening obstacles in order to predict migration patterns
Lee’s Migration Model
The average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medical conditions
Life Expectancy
a state of poor nutrition
malnutriturion
the number of mothers who die in childbirth for every thousand births
Maternal Mortality Rate
casual and unskilled workers who move about systematically from one region to another offering their services on a temporary, usually seasonal, basis.
workers worldwide who cross international borders in search of employment and become immigrants, in many instances.
Migrant Labor
groups of people or animals moving from one region or country to another.
Migration
the tendency for certain types of people to migrate
Migration Selectivity
A constant flow of migrants from the same origin to the same destination.
Migration Stream
The change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other changes that also produce demographic transitions
Migration Transition
All types of movement from one location to another
Mobility
a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular population
Mortality Rate
an attitude or policy favoring or encouraging population growth.
Natalism
the percentage by which a population grows in a year.
Natural Increase Rate (NIR)
Believe that the population of the world is growing too quickly for the scale of agricultural production and resources to keep up
Neo-Malthusian
The difference in the number of people who immigrate to and emigrate from a country.
Net Migration
Area of the Earth’s surface that humans consider too harsh for occupancy.
Unable to live there.
Nonecumene
