Ch. 3 Vocab Flashcards
Large-scale emigration by talented people
Brain Drain
Permanent movement undertaken by choice
Voluntary Migration
People who enter a country without proper documents
Unauthorized Immagrants
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
Refugees
In reference to migration, laws that place maximum limits on the number who can immigrate to a country each year
Quotas
Factor that induces people to move to a new location
Pull Factor
The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emmigration
Net migration
All types of movement from one location to another
Mobility
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
Migration Transition
Form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location
Migration
An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration
Intervening Obstacle
Permanent movement from one country to another
International Migration
Permanent movement within a particular country
Internal Migration
Migration to a new location
Immigration
Workers who migrate to the more developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa in search of higher-paying jobs
Guest Workers
