Unit 3 - Migration Geography Flashcards
This is used to know if a country’s population is increasing or decreasing through migration.
Net Migration
This is the migration to a place.
Immigration
This is the migration from a place.
Emmigration
These are the two factors which refers to the reasons why people migrate.
Push and Pull Factors
What are the Three Push Factors?
Economic Push Factor
Cultural Push Factor
Environmental Push Factor
What are the Three Pull Factors?
Economic Pull Factor
Cultural Pull Factor
Environmental Pull Factor
This type of push factor is the most common reason why people migrate. Lack of jobs makes it hard for them to earn a living and support their families. Hence, they migrate.
Economic Push Factor
This factor is a little ambiguous since the concept of culture is broad. However, we can cite religious or political persecutions as examples of this factor.
Cultural Push Factor
Unfavorable physical conditions like flood-prone areas of earthquake zones or too cold or too hot climates may cause people to move to more environmentally attractive places.
Environmental Push Factor
People go to places where there is a better chance of finding a job. Hence, Metro Manila is a magnet for people from different provinces who are seeking employment.
Economic Pull Factors
The most common pull factor here concerns people who are looking for a place where they can be free to express their religious or political beliefs.
Cultural Pull Factor
Physically desirable places to live where the climate is pleasant and where outdoor activities are possible.
Environmental Pull Factors
This means a permanent move within a country.
Internal Migration
What is the historical migration that is a best example of internal migration?
African American in the United States from the South to the North.
+ African Americans from the agricultural South were recruited to work in the industrial North to fill jobs created by World War I and World War II.
This occurs when people from a particular country migrate to specific place because their relatives or countrymen previously migrated there.
Chain Migration
This is the term used to call communities of immigrants living close together.
Enclaves
This refers to the money immigrants send back to their relatives in their home countries, which can be quite a substantial income source for them.
Remittances
This refers to Filipinos who work abroad.
Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW)
OFWs has also been hailed as ____ because their sacrifices brought financial gains both for their families and for the country as well through their remittances.
Mga Bagong Bayani
This refers to when the smartest, highly educated, and most driven community members are attracted by better job opportunities and financial stability away from their home countries.
Brain Drain
This refers to people who had no choice but to leave their home countries through forced migration.
Refugees
This refers to people who are forced to migrate from their home communities to another region of their home country.
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)
This is the body of law that governs the United States’ current immigration policy.
Immigration and Nationality Act (ACT)
Through INA, U.S. can grant up to _____ permanent immigrant visas each year across various visa categories.
675,000
This allows the U.S. president after due consultation with the U.S. Congress to set an annual number of refugees that could be admitted to the American soil.
U.S. Refugee Resettlement Process
This refers to people who enter a country without proper documentation.
Undocumented Immigrants
