Unit 2b: Population And Migration

Question 1

Migration

Answer 1

A permanent move to a new location

Question 2

Emigration vs. Immigration

Answer 2

Emigration: people moving away from an area
Immigration: people moving to a new area

Question 3

Net migration

Answer 3

The difference between levels of immigration and levels of emigration.

Question 4

Circulation

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Ravenstein’s laws

Answer 5

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.

Question 6

Push favors

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Refugee

Answer 7

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.

Question 8

Pull factors

Answer 8

A factor that induces people to move out of their present location

Question 9

Intervening obstacle

Answer 9

An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration

Question 10

International migration

Answer 10

Permanent migration from one country to another

Question 11

Interregional migration

Answer 11

Permanent move from one region of a country to another. Ex. Washington to New York

Question 12

Migration transition model

Answer 12

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 13

Chain migration

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Quota

Answer 14

In reference to migration, a law that placed maximum limit on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year.

Question 15

Brain drain

Answer 15

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.

Question 16

Guest worker

Answer 16

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.

Question 17

Nativism

Answer 17

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.

Question 18

Counter-urbanization

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Remittances

Answer 19

Transfer of money by workers to people in the country from which they emigrated

Question 20

Economic migrants

Answer 20

Migrants moving across international borders to seek an improved standard of living.