Chapter 3: Migration

Question 1

Refugees

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

Family Based Migration (chain migration)

Answer 2

People who migrate due to family ties.

Question 3

Emigration

Answer 3

Migration from a location.

Question 4

Immigration

Answer 4

Migration to a new location.

Question 5

Migration

Answer 5

A form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location.

Question 6

Push factor

Answer 6

A factor that induces people to leave old locations.

Question 7

Pull factor

Answer 7

A factor that induces people to move to a new location.

Question 8

Remittance

Answer 8

Transfer of money by workers to people in the country from which they emigrated.

Question 9

Interregional migration

Answer 9

Permanent movement from one region of a country to another.

Question 10

International migration

Answer 10

Permanent movement from one country to another.

Question 11

Intraregional migration

Answer 11

Permanent movement within one region of a country.

Question 12

Unauthorized immigrants

Answer 12

A person who enters a country without the proper documents to do so.

Question 13

Guest workers

Answer 13

A term once used for a worker who migrated to the developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of a higher-paying job.

Question 14

Migration transition

Answer 14

A 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.

Question 15

Brain drain

Answer 15

The large scale emigration by talented people.

Question 16

Counterurbanization

Answer 16

Net migration from urban to rural areas in developed countries.

Question 17

Floodplain

Answer 17

The area subject to flooding during a given number of years, according to historical trends.

Question 18

Gravity model

Answer 18

Theory that says interaction between places depends on size and distance.

Question 19

Internal migration

Answer 19

Permanent movement within a particular country.

Question 20

Net migration

Answer 20

The difference between the level of immigration.

Question 21

Forced migration

Answer 21

Permanent movement, compelled by cultural or environmental factors.

Question 22

Circular migration

Answer 22

The temporary movement of a migrant worker between home and host countries to seek employment.

Question 23

Distance decay

Answer 23

Declining intensity of phenomenon, increasing with distance from origin.

Question 24

Step migration

Answer 24

Migration that follows a path of a series of stages or steps toward a final destination.

Question 25

Voluntary migration

Answer 25

Permanent movement undertaken by choice.

Question 26

Quotas

Answer 26

In reference to migration, a law that places maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year.

Question 27

Asylum seeker

Answer 27

Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee.

Question 28

Internally displaced person

Answer 28

Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an international border.

Question 29

Intervening obstacle

Answer 29

An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration.

Question 30

Circulation

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Mobility

Answer 31

All types of movements between locations.

Question 32

Intervening opportunities

Answer 32

Positive circumstances or features that hinder migration.

Question 33

Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration

Answer 33

Theory by Ernst Ravenstein which demonstrates who was likely to migrate and where people would likely migrate.

Question 34

Rural to urban migration

Answer 34

Movement of people from rural to urban areas, typically for economic purposes.

Question 35

Transhumance

Answer 35

Migration where livestock are led to highland areas in summer months and lowland areas in winter months.

Question 36

Transnational migration

Answer 36

Migrants leaving their country of origin and enter another country.