Chapter 3

Question 0

Brain drain

Answer 0

Large-scale emigration by talented people

Question 1

Asylum seeker

Answer 1

Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee

Question 2

Chain migration

Answer 2

Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there

Question 3

Circulation

Answer 3

Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that reoccur on a regular basis

Question 4

Counterurbanization

Answer 4

Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries

Question 5

Emigration

Answer 5

Migration from a location

Question 6

Floodplain

Answer 6

The area subject to flooding during a given number of years, according to historical trends

Question 7

Forced migration

Answer 7

Permanent movement, usually compelled by cultural factors

Question 8

Guest worker

Answer 8

A term was used for a worker who migrated to the developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern and Eastern Europe or from North America, in search of a higher paying job

Question 9

Immigration

Answer 9

Migration to a new location

Question 10

Internal migration

Answer 10

Permanent movement from one country to another

Question 11

Internally displaced person

Answer 11

Somebody who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across international border.

Question 12

International migration

Answer 12

Permanent movement from one country to another.

Question 13

Interregional migration

Answer 13

Permanent movement from one region of the country to another.

Question 14

Intervening obstacle

Answer 14

In environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration.

Question 15

Intraregional migration

Answer 15

Permanent movement within one region of a country.

Question 16

Migration

Answer 16

A form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location.

Question 17

Migration Transition

Answer 17

A change in the migration pattern and in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produced the demographic transition.

Question 18

Mobility

Answer 18

All types of movement between location.

Question 19

Net Migration

Answer 19

The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration.

Question 20

Pull Factor

Answer 20

A factor that induces people to move to a new location.

Question 21

Push Factor

Answer 21

A factor that induces people to leave old residences.

Question 22

Quotas

Answer 22

In reference to migration, laws that place maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year.

Question 23

Refugees

Answer 23

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.

Question 24

Unauthorized immigrants

Answer 24

People who enter a country without proper documents to do so.

Question 25

Voluntary migration

Answer 25

Permanent movement undertaken by choice.