Chapter 3 vocab

Question 1

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.

Answer 1

Remittances

Question 2

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

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Cyclic Movements

Question 3

Spaces in which daily activities occur

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Activity Spaces

Question 4

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

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Nomadism

Question 5

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

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Periodic Movements

Question 6

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.

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Migrant Labor

Question 7

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

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Tranhumance

Question 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, who are moved to new locations where they will spend tours of duty lasting up to several years.

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Military Service

Question 9

A change in residence intended to be permanen

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Migration

Question 10

Human movement involving movement across international boundaries.

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International Migration

Question 11

Human movement within a nation-state, such as ongoingly westward and southward movements in the United States.

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Internal Migration

Question 12

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

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Forced Migration

Question 13

Movement in which people relocate in response to perceived opportunity, not because they were forced to move

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Voluntary Migration

Question 14

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

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Laws of Migration

Question 15

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

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Gravity Model

Question 16

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

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Push factors

Question 17

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

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Pull Factors

Question 18

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

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Distance Decay

Question 19

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

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Step Migration

Question 20

The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away.

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Intervening Opportunity

Question 21

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

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Kinship links

Question 22

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.)

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Chain migration

Question 23

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

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Immigration Wave

Question 24

A person examining a region that is unknown to them

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Explorers

Question 25

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.

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Colonization

Question 26

Place built up by a government or corporations to attract foreign investment and which has relatively high concentrations of paying jobs and infrastructure.

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Islands of Development

Question 27

Legal immigrant who has a work visa, usually short term.

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Guest workers

Question 28

People who have fled their country because of political persecution and seek asylum n another country.

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Refugees

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International refugees

Question 30

Shelter and protection in one state for refugees from another state.

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Asylum

Question 31

Laws and regulations of a state designed specifically to control immigrants into that state

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Immigration Laws

Question 32

Established limits by governments on the number of immigrants who can enter a country each year.

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Quotas

Question 33

Process to control immigration in which individuals with certain backgrounds are barred from immigrating

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Selective immigration

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Reverse Remittances

Question 35

The act of a person migrating into a new country or area

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Immigration

Question 36

The act of a government sending a migrant out of its country and back to the migrant’s home country

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Deportation

Question 37

Interactions occurring within a region, in a regional setting

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Regional Scale

Question 38

The Soviet policy to promote the diffusion of Russian culture throughout the republics of the former Soviet Union.

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Russification

Question 39

People who have been displaced within their own countries and do not cross international borders as they flee.

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Internally displaced persons

Question 40

A (group) of refugees returning to their home country, usually with the assistance of government or a non-governmental organization.

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repatriations

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genocide

Question 42

Migration that takes place across international boundaries and between world regions.

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global scale migration