Chapter 3: Migration Flashcards
The emigration of highly trained or intelligent people from a particular country
Brain drain
Shelter and protection in one state for refugees from another state
Asylum
The social process by which immigrants from a particular town follow one another to a different city
Chain migration
The act of setting up a colony away from ones place of origin
Colonization
Movement that has a closed route repeated annually or seasonally
Cyclic movement
The various degenerative effects of distance on human spatial structures and interactions
Distance decay
Human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate
Forced migration
The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group of nation
Genocide
Predicts that the location of a service is directly related to the number of people in the area and inversely related to the distant people must travel to access it
Gravity model
An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that helps migration
Intervening opportunity
An adaptation that does more harm than good
Maladaptation
A common type of periodic movement involving millions of US and tens of millions of workers worldwide who cross international borders in search of employment and become immigrants, in many instances
Migrant labor
Movements among a definite set of places often cyclic movement
-often a way of life, forced by a scarcity of resources, in which groups of people continually migrate to find pastures and water
Nomadism
Attractions that draw migrants to so certain place, such as a pleasant climate and employment or educational opportunities
Pull factors
Incentives for potential migrants to leave a place, such as harsh climate, economic recession, or political turmoil
Push factors
Powell who leave their home because they are forced out, but not because they are being officially relocated or enslaved
Refugee
Money migrants send back to family and friends in their home countries, often in cash, forming an important part of the economy in many poorer countries
Remittances
A refugee or group of refugees returning to their home country, usually with the assistance of government or a nongovernmental organization
Repatriation
Migration to a destination that occurs in stages, for example from farm to nearby village and later to a town or city
Step migration
A seasonal periodic movement of pastoralists and their livestock between highland and lowland
Transhumance
Movement in which people relocate in response to perceived opportunity; not forced
Voluntary migration
