Chapter 3: Migration

Question 0

The emigration of highly trained or intelligent people from a particular country

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Brain drain

Question 1

Shelter and protection in one state for refugees from another state

Answer 1

Asylum

Question 2

The social process by which immigrants from a particular town follow one another to a different city

Answer 2

Chain migration

Question 3

The act of setting up a colony away from ones place of origin

Answer 3

Colonization

Question 4

Movement that has a closed route repeated annually or seasonally

Answer 4

Cyclic movement

Question 5

The various degenerative effects of distance on human spatial structures and interactions

Answer 5

Distance decay

Question 6

Human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate

Answer 6

Forced migration

Question 7

The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group of nation

Answer 7

Genocide

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Gravity model

Question 9

An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that helps migration

Answer 9

Intervening opportunity

Question 10

An adaptation that does more harm than good

Answer 10

Maladaptation

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Migrant labor

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Nomadism

Question 13

Attractions that draw migrants to so certain place, such as a pleasant climate and employment or educational opportunities

Answer 13

Pull factors

Question 14

Incentives for potential migrants to leave a place, such as harsh climate, economic recession, or political turmoil

Answer 14

Push factors

Question 15

Powell who leave their home because they are forced out, but not because they are being officially relocated or enslaved

Answer 15

Refugee

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Remittances

Question 17

A refugee or group of refugees returning to their home country, usually with the assistance of government or a nongovernmental organization

Answer 17

Repatriation

Question 19

Migration to a destination that occurs in stages, for example from farm to nearby village and later to a town or city

Answer 19

Step migration

Question 20

A seasonal periodic movement of pastoralists and their livestock between highland and lowland

Answer 20

Transhumance

Question 21

Movement in which people relocate in response to perceived opportunity; not forced

Answer 21

Voluntary migration