Chapter 3 vocab Flashcards
money migrants send back to family and friends in their home country, often in cash, forming an important part of the economy in many poorer countries.
Remittances
Movement - for example, nomadic migrants- that has closed route and is repeated annually or seasonally.
Cyclic Movements
Spaces in which daily activities occur
Activity Spaces
Movement among a definite set of places- often cyclic movement.
Nomadism
Movement - for example. college attendance of military service- that involves temporary, recurrent relocation
Periodic Movements
Common type of periodic movement involving millions of workers in the United States and ten of millions of workers worldwide who cross international borders in season of employment and become immigrants, in many instances.
Migrant Labor
A seasonal periodic movement of pastoralists and their livestock between highland and lowland pastures
Tranhumance
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, who are moved to new locations where they will spend tours of duty lasting up to several years.
Military Service
A change in residence intended to be permanen
Migration
Human movement involving movement across international boundaries.
International Migration
Human movement within a nation-state, such as ongoingly westward and southward movements in the United States.
Internal Migration
Human Migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate.
Forced Migration
Movement in which people relocate in response to perceived opportunity, not because they were forced to move
Voluntary Migration
Developed by British demographer, Ernst Ravenstein, five laws that predict the flow of migrants.
Laws of Migration
A mathematical prediction of the interaction of places-, the interaction being a function of population size of the respective places and the distance between them
Gravity Model
Negative conditions and perceptions that induce people to leave their abode and migrate to a new locale.
Push factors
Positive conditions and perceptions that effectively attract people to new locales from other areas
Pull Factors
The effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the distance is less interaction
Distance Decay
Migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village and later to town and city.
Step Migration
The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away.
Intervening Opportunity
Types of push factors or pull factors that influence a migrant’s decision to go where family or friends have already found success.
Kinship links
Pattern of Migration that develops when migrants move along and through kinship links (I.e one migrant settles in a place and the writes, calls, r communicates through others to describe this place to family and friends who in turn then migrate there.)
Chain migration
Phenomenon whereby different patterns of chain migration build upon one another to create a swell in migration from one origin to the same destination.
Immigration Wave
A person examining a region that is unknown to them
Explorers
Physical process whereby the colonizer takes over another place, putting its own government in charge and either moving its own people into the place or bringing in indentured outsiders to gain control of the people and land.
Colonization
Place built up by a government or corporations to attract foreign investment and which has relatively high concentrations of paying jobs and infrastructure.
Islands of Development
Legal immigrant who has a work visa, usually short term.
Guest workers
People who have fled their country because of political persecution and seek asylum n another country.
Refugees
International refugees
Shelter and protection in one state for refugees from another state.
Asylum
Laws and regulations of a state designed specifically to control immigrants into that state
Immigration Laws
Established limits by governments on the number of immigrants who can enter a country each year.
Quotas
Process to control immigration in which individuals with certain backgrounds are barred from immigrating
Selective immigration
Reverse Remittances
The act of a person migrating into a new country or area
Immigration
The act of a government sending a migrant out of its country and back to the migrant’s home country
Deportation
Interactions occurring within a region, in a regional setting
Regional Scale
The Soviet policy to promote the diffusion of Russian culture throughout the republics of the former Soviet Union.
Russification
People who have been displaced within their own countries and do not cross international borders as they flee.
Internally displaced persons
A (group) of refugees returning to their home country, usually with the assistance of government or a non-governmental organization.
repatriations
genocide
Migration that takes place across international boundaries and between world regions.
global scale migration
