Unit 2 Migration - Vocabulary

Question 1

Activity space

Answer 1

the space within which daily activity occurs

Question 2

Brain drain

Answer 2

Large-scale emigration by talented people

Question 3

Brain gain

Answer 3

Opening up new opportunities and bring business experience and special skills

Question 4

Chain migration (migration ladder)

Answer 4

Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there

Question 5

Circulation

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Diaspora

Answer 6

The scattering of people who have a common background or beliefs

Ex. Jewish exile

Question 7

Emigration

Answer 7

Migration from a location

Question 8

Immigration

Answer 8

Migration to a new location

Question 9

Forced migration

Answer 9

Permanent movement, usually compelled by cultural factors

Question 10

Voluntary movement

Answer 10

Permanent movement undertaken by choice

Question 11

Gravity model

Answer 11

A model which holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service

Question 12

Guest worker

Answer 12

A term once used for a worker who migrated to the developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of a higher-paying job

Question 13

Internal migration

Answer 13

Permanent movement within a particular country

Question 14

International migration

Answer 14

Permanent movement form one country to another

Question 15

Intervening obstacle

Answer 15

An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration

Question 16

Intervening opportunity

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Migration transition

Answer 17

A change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produces the demographic transition

Question 18

Migration stream

Answer 18

A constant flow of migrants from the same origin to the same destination

Question 19

Migration selectivity

Answer 19

The tendency for certain types of people to migrate

Question 20

Mobility

Answer 20

All types of movement between location

Question 21

Net migration

Answer 21

The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration

Question 22

Periodic movement

Answer 22

Migration involving temporary, recurrent relocation

Ex. Military service, college

Question 23

Push factors

Answer 23

A factor that induces people to leave old residences

Question 24

Pull factors

Answer 24

A factor that induces people to move to a new location

Question 25

Quotas

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Ravenstein’s Laws

Answer 26

A

Question 27

Refugee

Answer 27

A person who is forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return in fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political option

Question 28

Remittance

Answer 28

Money migrants send back to family and friends in their home countries, often in cash, forming an important of the economy in poorer countries

Question 29

Rural to urban migration

Answer 29

Urbanization

Question 30

Step migration

Answer 30

Migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages

Question 31

Time-contract workers

Answer 31

Recruited for work, but only for a fixed period of time by contract

Ex. Guest workers

Question 32

Transhumance

Answer 32

The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures

Question 33

Urbanization

Answer 33

An increase in the percentage of the number of people living in urban settlements

Question 34

Suburbanization

Answer 34

The movement from cities to the suburbs

Question 35

Counter-urbanization

Answer 35

Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries