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 of relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there

Question 3

Counterurbanization

Answer 3

Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries

Question 4

Diaspora

Answer 4

To disperse forcefully or voluntary of people from their homeland to a new place.

Question 5

Distance decay function

Answer 5

The diminishing in the likeliness of a migrant to immigrate to an area based on how far away it is

Question 6

Emigration

Answer 6

Migration from a location

Question 7

Floodplain

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Forced migration

Answer 8

Permanent movement usually by cultural factors

Question 9

Guest workers

Answer 9

Workers who migrate to more developed countries of north eastern and western Europe usually from south eastern and Eastern Europe or from north Africa in search of higher-paying jobs

Question 10

Immigration

Answer 10

Migration to a new location

Question 11

Internal migration

Answer 11

Permanent movement within a particular country

Question 12

International migration

Answer 12

Permanent movement from one country to another

Question 13

Intervening obstacle

Answer 13

And environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration

Question 14

Interaregional

Answer 14

Movement within one region of the country

Question 15

Activity space

Answer 15

The range of an area in which an organism participates in its daily activities

Question 15

Lee’s Model

Answer 15

In 1966 Everett Lee added to the Ravenstiens migration theory by defining push and pull factors

Question 17

Migration

Answer 17

Form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to new country

Question 18

Migration selectivity

Answer 18

Only people exhibiting certain characteristics in a population choosing to migrate

Question 19

Migration stream

Answer 19

The flow of migration; immigration and emigration patterns that appear when large numbers of people move from one location to another

Question 20

Migration transition

Answer 20

Change in migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization population growth and other social and economic changes

Question 21

Mobility

Answer 21

All types of movement from one location to another

Question 22

Net migration

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Net-in migration

Answer 23

If the number of immigrants exceeds the number of emigrants the net migration is positive in the region has net-in-migration

Question 24

Net-out migration

Answer 24

If the number of emigrants exceeds the number of immigrants the net migration is negative and the region has net-out migration

Question 25

Pull factor

Answer 25

Factor that induces people to move to a new area

Question 26

Push factor

Answer 26

Factor that induces people to leave old residences

Question 27

Quotas

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Ravenstein’s Laws

Answer 28

10 laws that predict the flow of migrants developed by demographer Ernest Ravenstein

Question 29

Refugees

Answer 29

People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution

Question 30

Remittances

Answer 30

effective means to alleviate poverty particularly in rural areas where access to credit would otherwise be impossible

Question 31

Step migration

Answer 31

When people move up in a hierarchy of locations

Question 32

Suburbanization

Answer 32

Movement of urban people to the suburbs for various reasons such as more room larger homes less crime less population

Question 33

Time- contract workers

Answer 33

Immigrant recruited for a fixed period to work in mines or plantations

Question 34

Transhumance

Answer 34

The seasonal migration of life stuck between mountains and low land pastures

Question 35

Unauthorized immigrants

Answer 35

People who enter a country without proper documents

Question 36

Urbanization

Answer 36

An increase in the percentage of the number of people living in urban settlements

Question 37

Voluntary migration

Answer 37

Permanent migration undertaken by choice

Question 38

Zelinsky, Wilbur

Answer 38

One of Americans most prominent cultural geographers; equated migration to the demographic transition model.