Population

Question 1

Refugee Camps

Answer 1

In the early 1990s 300,000 refugees from Cambodia ended up in refugee camps in Thailand.

Question 2

Remittances

Answer 2

A sum of money sent, especially by mail, in payment for goods or services or as a gift.

Question 3

Transhumance

Answer 3

System of pastoral farming in which ranchers move livestock according to the seasonal availability of pastures. Unlike nomadism because it requires a substantial period of residential relocation in a different place.

Question 4

Migration

Answer 4

The long term movement of a person meant to be permanent.

Question 5

International Migration

Answer 5

Movement across country borders, also called transnational migration.

Question 6

Internal Migration

Answer 6

Migration within a single country’s borders.

Question 7

Emigration

Answer 7

Movement of people AWAY from a place

Question 8

Immigration

Answer 8

Movement of people TO a place.

Question 9

Forced Migration

Answer 9

Involuntary movement of people where the mover has no choice but the migrate. Usually involves the imposition of authority or power.

Question 10

Voluntary Migration

Answer 10

Human migration flows in which the movers respond to perceived opportunity, not force. Migrants weigh options and choices before moving.

Question 11

Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration

Answer 11

1. Every migration flow generates a return or counter-migration.
2. The majority of migrants move a short distance
3. Migrants who move longer distances tend to choose big-city destinations.
4. Urban residents are less migratory than inhabitants of rural areas.
5. Families are less likely to make international moves than young adults.

Question 12

Gravity Model

Answer 12

An inverse relationship between the volume of migration and the distance between source and destination: the number of migrants to a destination declines as the distance they must travel increases.

Question 13

Push vs Pull Factors

Answer 13

Push Factors: Are the conditions and perceptions that help a migrant decide to leave a place.
Pull Factors: Are the circumstances that effectively attract the migrant to certain locales from other places, the decision of where to go.

Question 14

Intervening Opportunity

Answer 14

When a migrant finds what they are looking for along the way and settle in a destination that was not their original one.

Question 15

Chain Migration

Answer 15

Flows along kinship links through letters, phone calls, or other forms of communication that create a positive perception of the destination for families and friends.

Question 16

Guest Workers

Answer 16

Western European governments called the labor migrants this, a term used to describe documented migrants with short term work visas.

Question 17

Islands of Development

Answer 17

Port cities become known as this within larger less developed regions.

Question 18

Refugees

Answer 18

A person who has a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership or a particular social group, or political opinion.

Question 19

Internally Displaced Persons

Answer 19

People who have been displaced within their own country.

Question 20

Asylum

Answer 20

The right to protection in the first country in which the refugee arrives.

Question 21

Repatriation

Answer 21

Process in which the UNHCR helps return refugees to their homelands and ensures that they are not forcibly returned where persecution is still continuing.

Question 22

Genocide

Answer 22

Acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group.