Chapter 3 Vocab

Question 1

Remittances

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

Cyclic movements

Answer 2

Movement- for example, nomadic migration that has a closed route and is repeated annually or seasonally.

Question 3

Activity spaces

Answer 3

The space in which daily activities occurs.

Question 4

Nomadism

Answer 4

Movement amount a definite set of places- often cyclic movement.

Question 5

Periodic movements

Answer 5

Movement- for example, college attendance or military service- that involves temporary recurrent relocation.

Question 6

Migrant labor

Answer 6

A common type of periodic movement involving millions of workers in the United States and tens of millions of workers worldwide who cross international borders in search of employment and become immigrants, in many instances.

Question 7

Transhumance

Answer 7

Seasonal periodic movement of pastoralists and their livestock between highland and lowland pastures

Question 8

Military service

Answer 8

Another common form of periodic movement involving as many as 10 million United States citizens in a given year, including military personnel and their families.

Question 9

Migration

Answer 9

A change in residence intended to be permanent. See also chain, forced, internal, international, step, and voluntary migration

Question 10

International migration

Answer 10

Human movement involving movement across international boundaries.

Question 11

Internal migration

Answer 11

Human movement within a nation state such as ongoing westward and southward movements in the United States

Question 12

Forced migration

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Voluntary migrations

Answer 13

Migration in which people relocate in response to perceived opportunity, not because they are forced to move.

Question 14

Laws of migration

Answer 14

Developed by British demographer Ernst Ravenstein, five laws that predict the flow of migrants

Question 15

Push factors

Answer 15

Negative conditions and perceptions that induce people to leave their adobe and migrate to a new locale.

Question 16

Pull factors

Answer 16

Positive conditions and perceptions that effectively attract people to new locales from other areas

Question 17

Distance decay

Answer 17

The effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less the interaction.

Question 18

Step migration

Answer 18

Migration to a distant destination that occur in stages, for example, from dram to nearby village and later to own and city.

Question 19

Intervening opportunity

Answer 19

The presence of a nearer opportunity that Greta,y diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away.

Question 20

Kinship links

Answer 20

Types of push factors or pull factors that influence a migrant’s decision to go where family or friends have already found success.

Question 21

Chain migration

Answer 21

Pattern of migration that develops when migrants move lain and through kinship links ( on migrant settles in a place and writes, calls, or communicates through others to describe this place to family and friend who in turn then migrate there).

Question 22

Immigration wave

Answer 22

Phenomenon whereby different patterns of chain migration build up upon one another to create a swell in migration from one origin to the same destination

Question 23

Explorers

Answer 23

A person examining a region that is unknown to them

Question 24

Gravity Model

Answer 24

A mathematical prediction of the interaction of places, thee interaction being a function of population size of the respective places and the distanced between them.