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 relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there

Question 3

Circulation

Answer 3

Short term repetitive or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis

Question 4

Counter urbanization

Answer 4

Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries

Question 5

Emigration

Answer 5

Migration from a location

Question 6

Floodplain

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Forced migration

Answer 7

Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors

Question 8

Guest workers

Answer 8

Workers who migrate to the more developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from from southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa in search of higher paying jobs

Question 9

Immigration

Answer 9

Migration to a new location

Question 10

Internal migration

Answer 10

Permanent movement within a particular country

Question 11

International migration

Answer 11

Permanent movement from one country to another

Question 12

Interregional migration

Answer 12

Permanent movement from one region of a country to another

Question 13

Intervening obstacle

Answer 13

An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration.

Question 14

Intraregional migration

Answer 14

Permanent movement within one region of a country

Question 15

Migration

Answer 15

Form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location

Question 16

Migration transition

Answer 16

Change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization population growth and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transistion

Question 17

Mobility

Answer 17

All types of movement from one location to another

Question 18

Net migration

Answer 18

The difference between the level immigration and the level of emigration

Question 19

Pull factor

Answer 19

Factor that induces people to move to a new location

Question 20

Push factor

Answer 20

Factor that induces people to leave old residences

Question 21

Quotas

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Refugees

Answer 22

People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race religion nationality membership in a social program or political opinion

Question 23

Unauthorized immigrants

Answer 23

People who enter a country without proper documents

Question 24

Voluntary migration

Answer 24

Permanent movement undertaken by choice