chapter 3 - migration

Question 1

cyclic movement

Answer 1

traveling away from home for a short period

Question 2

activity spaces

Answer 2

area within which daily activity occurs

Question 3

nomadism

Answer 3

traveling along a definite set of spaces

Question 4

periodic movement

Answer 4

traveling away from home for a longer period

Question 5

migrant labor

Answer 5

worker who crosses international borders in search of employment

Question 6

transhumance

Answer 6

seasonal periodic traveling of pastoralists and their livestock according to seasonal availability of pastures

Question 7

migration

Answer 7

a change in residence intended to be permanent

Question 8

guest workers

Answer 8

migrants allowed into a country to fill a labor need, assuming the workers will go “home” once the labor need subsides

Question 9

remittances

Answer 9

money migrants send back to family and friends in their home countries, often in cash, forming an important part of the economy in poorer countries

Question 10

push factor

Answer 10

negative conditions and perceptions that induce people to leave their abode and migrate to a new locale

Question 11

pull factor

Answer 11

positive conditions and perceptions that effectively attract people to new locales from other areas

Question 12

forced migration

Answer 12

movers have no choice but to relocate

Question 13

voluntary migration

Answer 13

mover has the option and chooses to relocate

Question 14

trafficking in persons

Answer 14

the transportation of persons, by threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of fraud, of deception

Question 15

human trafficking

Answer 15

the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery