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Chapter 3 APHumanGeo
Chapter 3 vocabulary for APHG.
Term | Definition |
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Voluntary Migration | Permanent movement undertaken by choice. |
Unauthorized Immigrants | People who enter a country without proper documents to do so. |
Refugees | People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion. |
Quotas | In reference to migration, laws that place maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year. |
Push Factor | A factor that induces people leave old residences. |
Pull Factor | A factor that induces people to move to a new location. |
Net Migration | The difference between the level of immigration and emigration. |
Mobility | All types of movement between location. |
Migration Transition | A change in migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition. |
Migration | A form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location. |
Intraregional Migration | Permanent movement within a region of a country. |
Intervening Obstacle | An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration. |
Interregional Migration | Permanent movement from one region of a country to another. |
International Migration | Permanent movement from one country to another. |
Internal Migration | Permanent movement within a particular country. |
Immigration | Migration to a new location. |
Guest Worker | A term once used for a worker who migrated to the developed countries of Northern and Western Europe or from North Africa, in search of a higher-paying job. |
Forced Migration | Permanent movement, usually compelled by cultural factors. |
Floodplain | The area subject to flooding during a given number of years, according to historical trends. |
Emigration | Migration from a location. |
Counterurbanization | Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries. |
Circulation | Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis. |
Chain Migration | Migration of people to a specific location because relatives members of the same nationality previously migrated there. |
Brain Drain | Large-scale emigration by talented people. |