Chapter 3: Migration

Question 1

Brain Drain

Answer 1

Large-scale emigration by talented people.

Question 2

Chain Migration

Answer 2

Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there

Question 3

Circulation

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Counterurbanization

Answer 4

Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries.

Question 5

Emigration

Answer 5

Migration from a location.

Question 6

Floodplain

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Forced migration

Answer 7

Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors.

Question 8

Guest workers

Answer 8

Workers who migrate to the more developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern of Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of higher-paying jobs.

Question 9

Immigration

Answer 9

Migration to a new location

Question 10

Internal migration

Answer 10

Permanent movement within a particular country.

Question 11

International migration

Answer 11

Permanent movement from one country to another.

Question 12

Interregional migration

Answer 12

Permanent movement from one region of a country to another.

Question 13

Intervening obstacle

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Migration

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Migration transition

Answer 15

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 16

Mobility

Answer 16

All types of movement from one location to another.

Question 17

Net migration

Answer 17

The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration.

Question 18

Pull factor

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Push factor

Answer 19

A factor that induces people to leave old residences.

Question 20

Quotas

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Refugees

Answer 21

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 22

Unauthorized immigrants

Answer 22

People who enter a country without proper documents.

Question 23

Voluntary migration

Answer 23

Permanent movement undertaken by choice.