Chapter 3

Question 0

Brain drain

Answer 0

Large scare emigration by talented people

Question 1

Asylum seeker

Answer 1

Someone who has migrated to another country in hopes 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 recur on a regular basis

Question 4

Counter urbanization

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 once used for a worker who migrated to the developed countries of northern and Western Europe, usually from southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa, 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 within a country

Question 11

Internally displaced person (IDP)

Answer 11

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

Question 12

International migration

Answer 12

Permanent movement from one country to another

Question 13

Inter regional migration

Answer 13

Permanent movement from one region of a country to another

Question 14

Intervening obstacle

Answer 14

An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration

Question 15

Migration

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Migration transition

Answer 16

A 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

Question 17

Mobility

Answer 17

All types of movement between location

Question 18

Net migration

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Pull factor

Answer 19

A factor that induces people to move to a new location

Question 20

Push factor

Answer 20

A factor that induces people to leave old residences

Question 21

Quotas

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Refugees

Answer 22

People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return of fear of persecution because of their race religion nationality membership in a social group or political opinion

Question 23

Unauthorized immigrants

Answer 23

People who enter a country without proper documents to do so

Question 24

Voluntary migration

Answer 24

Permanent movement undertaken by choice

Question 25

Intraregional migration

Answer 25

Migration within a region