KBAT Chapter 3 Flashcards
Remittance
Money sent back (think about that book you read in 6th)
Cyclic Movements
Movement w/ closed route and is repeated annually/ seasonally.
Periodic Movement
Temporary or recurrent movement (think college)
Migration
A change in where you lived
Activity spaces
A place where daily activity occurs
Nomadism
Movement among a definite set of place
Migrant labor
Common type of periodic movement- search for employment
Transhumance
Seasonal/ periodic movement
Pastoralists and their livestock move between highland & lowland plains
Military Service
Another type of periodic movement…. Military personnel and their families moved to new locations
International migration
Human movement involving international borders
Immigration
Person migrating to a particular country/ era
Internal migration
Human movement w/in a nation/state
Think Oregon trail
Forced migration
Human migration where they have no choice (Ex: Catherine the Great and Russian-German migration)
Voluntary migration
Movement in response to perceived opportunities
Laws of Migration
Predicts flow of migrants
Gravity Model
Mathematical prediction of interaction of places
Push factors
Negative conditions & perceptions that induce to leave a location
Pull factors
Positive conditions & perceptions to attract people to a location
Distance decay
Effects of distance on interaction- the greater the distance to less interaction
Step migration
Migration in stages to destinations
Ex: A farm- a village- a town- city
Intervening opportunity
Presence of nearer opportunity that diminishes attractiveness for father sites
Deportation
Gov’t send a migrant back to their home country
Kinship links
Type of push/ pull factors that influence a migrants decision to go where family/ friends found success
Chain migration
Pattern of migration where move through kinship links
Immigration wave
Different patterns of chain migration build upon one another, creates swell from origin to the same destination
Global scale migration
Migration across international boundaries and between world regions.
Explorers
A person examining a region unknown to them
Colonization
….. Kinda obvi
Regional scale
Interactions occurring within a region- regional setting
