Chapter 3 Flashcards
Emigration
Movement out of an area
Immigration
Movement into an area
Voluntary
There are push and pull factors
Forced
Person/people have absolutely no choice
Step migration
A series of small, less extreme locational changes ; from a farm to a small town, to a larger town and then a city
Chain migration
the idea that there exists an established linkage or chain from the point of origin for migrants to their destination
Cyclic movement
Every day movements to and from work, school, stores, etc.
Migratory movement
Permanent relocation
Periodic movement
Move for a certain period of time ; college, military
Intercontinental movements
from continent to continent
Interregional movement
Movement within a country
Rural to urban migration
from the countryside to cities
Ravenstien’s Law
Most migrants only go a short distance, is rural to urban, proceeds step by step, are adults
Longer distance favors big-cities
International are mostly male
Each migration flow produces a counterflow
Push-pull factors
The push away from a home or the attractiveness to move to an area
Distance decay
A function that represents the way that some entity or its influence decays with distance from its geographical location
Brain drain
Large scale emigration of talented people
Intervening obstacles
An environmental or cultural feature that hinders migration
Transmigration
to move or pass from one place to another
Refugee
a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
Place utility
The desirability and usefulness of a place to an individual or group
Gravity model
Mathematical prediction of the interactions of places. The interaction being a function of population size of places and the distance between them
Transhumance
A season periodic movement of pastoralist and their livestock between highland and lowland pastures
Activity space
the space within which daily activity occurs
Personal space
the space a person can reach without traveling
Space-time prism
the set of all points that can be reached by an individual given a maximum possible speed from a starting point in space-time and an ending point in space-time
Internal migration
within a nation-state, such as ongoing westward and southward movements in the US
Guest workers
Legal immigrant who has a visa ; usually temporary
Wilbur zelinsky model
Based on economic growth or how developed a society is. It is linked to the Demographic Transition Model
Recent trends
Migrate to MDC’s from LDC’s
Latin America and Asia to America
Job opportunities
Rural to urban
