Unit 2b: Population And Migration Flashcards
Migration
A permanent move to a new location
Emigration vs. Immigration
Emigration: people moving away from an area
Immigration: people moving to a new area
Net migration
The difference between levels of immigration and levels of emigration.
Circulation
Short term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis
Ravenstein’s laws
The idea that most migrants move a short distance. Most migrants who move long distance, move to big cities. Urban residents often move less than rural inhabitants.
Push favors
A factor that induces people to move out of their present location. Ex. Hurricanes continuously occurring and driving people to move out of the area
Refugee
Someone who is forced to migrate their country and cannot return due to the fear of being prosecuted by a war because of their race, nationality, religion, political views, or group membership.
Pull factors
A factor that induces people to move out of their present location
Intervening obstacle
An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration
International migration
Permanent migration from one country to another
Interregional migration
Permanent move from one region of a country to another. Ex. Washington to New York
Migration transition model
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
Chain migration
Migration of people to a specific location because relative or members of the same nationality previously migrated there.
Quota
In reference to migration, a law that placed maximum limit on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year.
Brain drain
Large scale emigration by talented people. Ex. Talented workers in India and Pakistan may move to MDCs like Western Europe or the us because of the better pay rates and opportunities.
Guest worker
A term once used for a worker who immigrated to the developed countries of northern and Western Europe, usually from southern and Eastern Europe or North Africa, in search of a higher paying job.
Nativism
The policy of protecting the interests of native bien or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. Ex. In the 1880s, Chinese Americans were targeted by European Americans and drived out of small towns.
Counter-urbanization
Net migration from urban areas to rural areas in more developed countries. Ex. People who move to smaller cities to live slower and move relaxed lifestyles
Remittances
Transfer of money by workers to people in the country from which they emigrated
Economic migrants
Migrants moving across international borders to seek an improved standard of living.
