Chapter 3 Flashcards
ReVerse remittances
Sending money to immigrants form home
What Are remittances
Money sent home from immigrant
Nomadism
A purposeful type of movement that takes place along to Similar routes is repeated
Interal migration
With a country’s boundaries
Forced migration
Authority or power producing involuntary migration
Voluntary migration
The conscious decision to migrate
Laws of migration
1Every migration flow generate return or counter migration
2 majority of migrants move short distances
3migrate Who choose to move long distances choose big cities destinations
4 urban residents r less migratory than inhabitants of urban areas
5 Families are less likely to make international moves than young adults
The gravity model/ ravenstiens idea
Predicts migration patterns between places on the basis of their population size and distance between them
Distance delay
More likely to move closer to home
Step migration
Consist of a series of stages to a final destination
Intervening opportunity
A surprising opportunity that stops or hinders step migration
Chain migration
Migration based on the kinship links premoats the move of family members
ImMigration waves
Immagrints from a certain destination
Islands of developments
Port cities become islands of economic development within larger undeveloped Legion
Russification
Assimilation of people in the Soviet territory
Guest workers
Short-term labor in other country
Refugee
A person who has a well sounds fear of being persecuted for face religion nationality membership of a particular social group or political opinion
Internally displaced persons IDP
Displaced with that in their own country such as the victims of Hurricane Katrina but do not cross international borders
Repatriation
Helping return refugees to their homeland
Internal migration in the us is moving
From east to west
periodic migration
moving away from home for a long period of time
cyclic movement
away from home for a short period of time
