Chapter 3 Migration Flashcards
Migration that occurs within a Country’s borders
Internal Migration
adds to the total population of a country
Immigration
Subtracts from the total population of a country
Emigration
Movement across country borders
International migration
Another form of periodic movement. In a given year, as many as 10 million U.S. citizens including military personnel and their families, are moved to new locations where they will spend tours of duty that can last several years.
Military Service
Shorter periods away from home
Cyclic movement
Longer periods away from home
Periodic movement
Degree of permanence. Mover may never return home
Migration
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The great majority of people have a daily routines that takes them through a regular sequence of short moves within a local area.
Activity Spaces
Millions of workers in the United States and tens of millions worldwide.
Migrant Labor
Type of movement linked in survival, culture and tradition.
Nomadism
Type of periodic movement which is a system of pastoral farming where ranchers move livestock.
Transhumance
Involves imposition of authority or power producing involuntary migration movements.
Forced migration
Occurs after a migrant weighs options and choices, even if desperately or no it so rationally.
Voluntary Migration
Conditions and perceptions that help migrants decide to leave a place
Push factors
Circumstances that effectively attract migrant to certain locales from other places, the decision of where to go.
Pull Factors
Predicts interaction between places on the basis of their population size and distance between them.
Gravity Model
Prospective migrants are likely to have more complete perceptions of nearer places than of farther ones
Distance Decay
A favorable situation or opportunity that a migrant encounters during their journey to their intended destination causing them to settle in a new location instead of reaching their original goal.
Intervening Opportunity
Being sent back home
Deportation
Immigrants from a specific area follow other immigrants
Chain Migration
Social and biological connections between people that spark migration
Kinship Links
Chains of migration built up upon each other create this
Immigration Waves
Large scale population movements across international borders
Global Scale migration
A physical process whereby the colonizer takes over another place
Colonization
A geographical area within a less developed country where a high level of economic development exists.
Islands of Development
People who are displaced from their own countries
Internally Displaced person
Person who has a well founded fear of being persecuted for various reasons
Refugee
