Chapter 3

Question 1

What is migration?

Answer 1

movement with permanent relocation across significant distances

Question 2

What are the three types of movement?

Answer 2

cyclic movement, periodic movement, migration

Question 3

What is cyclic movement?

Answer 3

shorter periods of time away from home

Question 4

What are examples of cyclic movement?

Answer 4

commuting, seasonal movement, nomadism

Question 5

What is an activity space?

Answer 5

a place that you regularly go

Question 6

What is periodic movement?

Answer 6

a longer period of time away from home base

Question 7

What are examples of periodic movement?

Answer 7

migrant labor, military service, transhumance

Question 8

What is transhumance?

Answer 8

a system of farming in which ranchers move livestock according to seasonal availability

Question 9

What is international migration?

Answer 9

movement across country borders

Question 10

What is internal migration?

Answer 10

movement within a country’s borders

Question 11

What is emigration?

Answer 11

to leave ones place of residence or country to live elsewhere

Question 12

What is circular migration?

Answer 12

a type of temporary migration associated with agricultural work

Question 13

What is voluntary migration?

Answer 13

the migrant makes the decision to move and weighs several push and pull factors

Question 14

What is distance decay?

Answer 14

weighs into the decision to migrate leading to many migrants to move less far than they originally contemplate

Question 15

Name and describe two types of voluntary migration

Answer 15

• Step migration- when a migrant follows a path of a series of steps or stages toward a final destination
• Chain Migration- a migrant communicates to friends and family at home encouraging further migration along the same path along kinship links

Question 16

What is an intervening opportunity?

Answer 16

at one of the steps along the path pull factors encourage the migrant to settle

Question 17

What are the types of push and pull factors?

Answer 17

economic, political, armed conflict and civil war, environmental, culture, technology

Question 18

What is forced migration?

Answer 18

involuntary migration

Question 19

What are guest workers and what do they have?

Answer 19

• migrants whom a country allows in to fill a labor need, assuming the workers will go home
• have short term work visas
• send remittances to home country

Question 20

What is a refugee?

Answer 20

a person who flees across an international boundary because of a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a social group or political opinion

Question 21

List and describe the regions of dislocation.

Answer 21

• Subsaharan Africa- poverty and disease with humanitarian crises
• North Africa and Southwest Asia-Afghanistan, Iraq
• Southeast Asia- internal refugees in myanmar
• South Asia- 3rd ranking b/c of Pakistan and civil war in Syria
• Europe- 1990s- Collapse of Yugoslavia

Question 22

What does it mean to seek asylum?

Answer 22

protection in one state from another state

Question 23

What does the UN aid with?

Answer 23

Repatriation

Question 24

What are the barriers to migration?

Answer 24

• physical boundaries in the past, political boundaries in the present
• technology allowed us to overcome

Question 25

What are immigration laws?

Answer 25

laws that restrict or allow migration of certain groups into a country

Question 26

What are quotas?

Answer 26

Quotas limit the number of migrants from each region

Question 27

What is selective immigration?

Answer 27

bars people with certain backgrounds

Question 28

What are islands of development?

Answer 28

coastal cities where a lot of money is used in areas that are not very developed or industrialized

Question 29

What are immigration waves?

Answer 29

swells in immigration from one origin to the same destination