Chapter 3 Flashcards
A space within which daily activities occur
Activity spaces
The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee
Asylum
Large scale emigration by talented people
Brain drain
Migration of people and to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there
Chain migration
Short term, repetitive, or cyclical movements the recur on a regular basis
Circulation
The act of colonizing
Colonization
Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries
Counter-urbanization
Journeys that begin at our home and bring us back to it
Cyclic movements
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin
Distance decay
Migration from a location
Emigration
Permanent migration compelled usually by cultural factors
Forced migration
A model that holds the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach that service
Gravity model
Workers who migrate to the more developed countries of North and Western Europe, usually from Southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of higher paying jobs
Guest workers
Migration to a new location
Immigration
When large numbers of people immigrate to one place
Immigration wave
Permanent movement within a particular country
Internal migration
An internally displaced person IDP is someone who is forced to flee their home but who, unlike refugees, remains within their country’s borders
Internal refugees
An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration
Intervening obstacle
Permanent movement with one region of a country
Intra-regional migration
A place built up by a government or corporation to attract foreign investment and has high paying jobs and good infrastructure
Islands of development
Types of push or pull factors that influence a migrants decision to go where family or friends have already found success
Kinship links
A common type of periodic movement involving millions of workers in the US and tens of millions of workers worldwide, who cross international borders in search of employment, and become immigrants, in many instances.
Migrant labor
Form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location
Migration
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
Migration transition
A force that is a branch of the armed forces
Military service
All types of movement from one location to another
Mobility
The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration
Net migration
Movement in which a population shifts from site to site between seasons in a relatively unpredictable manner.
Nomadism
Motion that recurs over and over and the period of time required for each recurrence remains the same
Periodic movements
Factors that induces people to move to a new location
Pull factor
Factor that induces people to leave old residences
Ouch factor
I reference to migration, laws that place maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year
Quotas
People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group or political opinion
Refugees
A transfer of money by a foreign worker to his or her home country
Remittances
A country does not allow immigration by individuals with certain backgrounds (criminal records, poor health, subversive activities)
Selective Immigration
Migration involving several small moves
Step migration
Humans lead migration of livestock between seasonal availability of pastures
Transhumance
People who enter the country without proper documents
Undocumented immigrants
Permanent movement undertaken by choice
Voluntary migration
