Chapter 3

Question 0

Pull factor

Answer 0

Factor that induces people to move to a new location

Question 1

Push factor

Answer 1

Factor that induces people to leave old residences

Question 2

Refugees

Answer 2

People who have been forced to migrate from their homes and cannot return for fear of prosecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion

Question 3

Floodplain

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Intervening obstacle

Answer 4

Environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration

Question 5

International migration

Answer 5

Permanent movement from one country to another

Question 6

Internal migration

Answer 6

Permanent movement within a particular country

Question 7

Inter regional migration

Answer 7

One region of a country to another

Question 8

Intraregional migration

Answer 8

Movement within one region

Question 9

Voluntary migration

Answer 9

Permanent movement undertaken by choice

Question 10

Forced migration

Answer 10

Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors

Question 11

Migration transition

Answer 11

Changes 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 12

Brain drain

Answer 12

Large scale emigration by talented people

Question 13

Chain migration

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Circulation

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Counterurbanization

Answer 15

Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries

Question 16

Emigration

Answer 16

Migration from a location

Question 17

Guest workers

Answer 17

Workers who migrate to more developed countries like in northern and Western Europe, usually from southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of higher paying jobs

Question 18

Immigration

Answer 18

Migration to a new location

Question 19

Migration

Answer 19

Form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location

Question 20

Mobility

Answer 20

All types of movement from one location to another

Question 21

Net migration

Answer 21

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

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

Unauthorized immigrants

Answer 23

People who enter a country without proper documents