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The degree of equality between men and women with respect to access to and control over both physical and social resources in the family community or society at large
Women status
The increased autonomy of women to make choices and shape their lives
Women’s Empowerment
States in the coastal areas and the South and Southwest United States
Sunbelt
A person who migrates or moves
Migrant
Increase in food production resulting from the use of new farming methods
Boserup affect
Migrants going back, or returning, to their previus place of residence or origin.
Return migration
Designed to curtail population growth by reducing fertility rates
Anti-natalist Policies
Culturally specific notions of what it means to be a man or woman
Gender roles
A very useful graphic device for comparing age and sex structure
Population pyramid
A nearby attractive locale where migrants may decide to settle instead of going to the intended destination farther away
Intervening oppurtinuity
The pattern in which humans are spread out on Earth’s Surface
Population distribution
A branch of medicine that studies the distribution, determinants, and control of diseases and other health conditions, such as tobacco use and sedentary lifestyle
Epidemiology
The attributes of other places tha make them appealing to potential migrants
Pull factors
The relatively stable relationship between the odds of migration and age across different countries
Migration age profile
Theory asserting that two contrasting sets of factors are at work in migration decisions
Push and pull theory of migration
The average number of children born per woman during her reporductive lifetime, considered to be from 15-49 years old.
Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
A CBR between 20-30 births per 1000 people
Transitional Birth Rate
A phenomenon in which a culture demonstrates a marked preference for males
Androcentrism
The average number of children needed to replace both parents and stabilize population over time. Approximately 2.1.
Replacement Level Fertility
The makeup of the population by age and sex as well as by ethnic, racial, income and educational background
Population Composition
The difference between the number of births and deaths in a given year, when expressed as a percentage of total population
Rate of natrual increase (RNI)
When migrants move back and forth between their home countries and those to which they have migrated
Transnational Migration
The statistical study of population and its change
Demography
The average number of people per unit of land area
Population density
Involuntary mass dispersions of a population from its home territory
Diaspora
A tool for calculating the doubling time of a population by dividing 70 by a country’s rate of natural increase (RNI)
Rule of 70
A population of a country or place that ages as the number or proportion of its elderly people increases
Aging population
occurs when the human population exceeds the food supply
Overpopulation
The process by which some people’s migration to a new place leads their family members, friends and others to move to the same place
Chain migration
A phenomenon where herders and their livestock move seasonally between their summer and winter pastures
Transhumance
States located in the northern and midestern parts of the United States
Snowbelt
When moves are made across National Borders
International Migration
Mobility that implies a change in social hierarchy
Social (upward) Mobility
Someone who remain within his or her country;s borders despite being persecuted by their home country
Internally Displaced Persons (IDP)
People born after the turn of the twenty-first century
Gen Z
Factors that cause people to be dissatisfied with their present locales and want to move somewhere else
Push Factors
Migration that is done willingly
Voluntary migration
When a country has the same number of births and deaths in a given year, its RNI is zero
Zero population growth
Ethnic homeland in the US South
Black belt
The forced removal of one ethnic group by another ethnic group to create an ethnically consistant territory
Ethnic cleansing
The number of dependents in a population, that each 100 working age people (ages 15-64) must support
Dependency ratio
The method for calculating total population of a country or place based on natural increase and migration over a period of time (usually a year)
Demographic equation
Moves that occur within a metropolitian area
Resedential mobility
People who today subscribe to the Malthusian view of population
Neo-Malthusians
A disease that causes deterioration over time, such as canver, heart disease, and stroke
Degenerative diseases
Permanent movement within one region of a country, such as moving from the suburbs to the big city.
interreigonal migration
People who leave their country because of persecution based on race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, or political opinion
Refugees
The portion of Earth’s surface with permanent human settlment
Ecumene
When people move within the borders of a country
Internal (Interregional) Migration
People’s friends and relatives
Social networks
People who disagree with the Malthusian view of population and resources
Anti-Malthusians
When refugees or displaced persons return to their home country
Repatriated
The balancing point given the distribution of population
Mean Center of Population
The long-term or permanent relocation of individuals, families or entire communities from one place to another
Migration
Deaths of children under five years of age
Child morality
The act of a migrant arriving at their destination city
Immigration
The age that divides a poplaution into two halves so that one half is younger than this age and the other half is older
median age
Short-term and cyclical movement that occurs repeatedly on a regular basis
Circulation
Seeks to explain how changes in health serices and living standards affect patterns of disease
Epdemiological Transition Theory
A term derived from the name Thomas Robert Malthus, an English economist and cleric, to mean either “of or relating to Malthus’s theory” or “a follower of Malthus”
Malthusian
The complications that potential migrants will need to overcome to reach their destinations
Intervenning obstables
The average number of people per unit of land area (usually per square mile or kilometer)
Arithmetic (Crude) Density
The number of deaths per year per 1000 people
Crude Death Rate (CDR) or Mortality Rate
Refers to the breakdown of a population into different age groups or cohorts
Age structure
All forms of geographical movement, including people’s everyday commuting and travel
Spatial mobility
People born between 1965-1980 and are now in their prime working years
Generation X
The difference between the number of immigrants and emmigrants
Net migration
The state of being comfortable, healthy or happy
Human well being
The twentieth-century movement of 6 million African Americans from rural southern states to the cities of the midwestern and northeastern states
The great migration
