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Chapter 3 Flashcards

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A space within which daily activities occur

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Activity spaces

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The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee

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Asylum

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Large scale emigration by talented people

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Brain drain

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

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Chain migration

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

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Circulation

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The act of colonizing

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Colonization

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Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries

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Counter-urbanization

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Journeys that begin at our home and bring us back to it

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Cyclic movements

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The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin

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Distance decay

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Migration from a location

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Emigration

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Permanent migration compelled usually by cultural factors

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Forced migration

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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

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Gravity model

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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

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Guest workers

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Migration to a new location

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Immigration

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When large numbers of people immigrate to one place

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Immigration wave

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Permanent movement within a particular country

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Internal migration

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An internally displaced person IDP is someone who is forced to flee their home but who, unlike refugees, remains within their country’s borders

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Internal refugees

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An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration

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Intervening obstacle

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Permanent movement with one region of a country

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Intra-regional migration

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A place built up by a government or corporation to attract foreign investment and has high paying jobs and good infrastructure

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Islands of development

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Types of push or pull factors that influence a migrants decision to go where family or friends have already found success

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Kinship links

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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.

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Migrant labor

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

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Migration

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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

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Migration transition

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A force that is a branch of the armed forces

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Military service

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All types of movement from one location to another

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Mobility

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

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Net migration

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Movement in which a population shifts from site to site between seasons in a relatively unpredictable manner.

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Nomadism

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Motion that recurs over and over and the period of time required for each recurrence remains the same

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Periodic movements

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Factors that induces people to move to a new location

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Pull factor

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Factor that induces people to leave old residences

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Ouch factor

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

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Quotas

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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

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Refugees

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A transfer of money by a foreign worker to his or her home country

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Remittances

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A country does not allow immigration by individuals with certain backgrounds (criminal records, poor health, subversive activities)

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Selective Immigration

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Migration involving several small moves

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Step migration

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Humans lead migration of livestock between seasonal availability of pastures

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Transhumance

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People who enter the country without proper documents

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Undocumented immigrants

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Permanent movement undertaken by choice

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Voluntary migration

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