Unit 2, Week 7 Flashcards
Migration
The permanent movement of people from one place to another.
Emigration
Migration from a location.
Immigration
Migration to a new location.
Ravenstein’s Laws
A series of laws that describe voluntary migration patterns.
Friction of Distance
The degree to which distance interferes with some interaction, usually between two places.
Push factor
Induces people to move out of their present location. Usually negative.
Pull factor
Something that encourages people to move to a new place. Usually a positive, usually for economic. cultural, or environmental reasons.
Intervening obstacle
An environmental of cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration.
Gravity model
Interaction of places based on their population, sizes, and distances between them.
Trail of Tears
Native Americans (Cherokee) who were forced from their land traveled west in the 1830’s.
Voluntary migration
Permanent movement undertaken by choice.
Forced migration
Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors.
Brain drain
Large-scale emigration by talented people.
Diaspora
A dispersion of people from their homeland. Historically and commonly refers to the Jewish people from their homeland.
Atlantic Slave Trade
Process by which Europeans brought enslaved Africans to the Americas.
Guest worker
A foreign laborer living and working temporarily in another country.
Refugee
A person who flees to another country to escape persecution or disaster.
IDP
Internationally Displaced Person; Similar to refugees, but the relocation occurs within the same country.
Colombian Exchange
The global transfer of foods, plants, and animals during the colonization of the Americas by the Europeans, beginning with the discovery of the New World by Columbus. Considered as the beginnings of globalization.
Industrial Revolution
A period of major industrialization that took place during the 1700s and early 1800s. Change in technology, brought by improvements in machinery and esp. by use of steam power.
Internal migration
Permanent movement within a particular country.
Inter-regional migration
Permanent movement BETWEEN regions.
Intra-regional migration
Permanent movement WITHIN the same region.
Rural to urban migration
People moving from the countryside to cities.
Wilbur Zelinsky
Made model of transition of migration of a country depending on how developed it is.
