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Unit 2
Migration
Term | Definition |
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Brain drain | Large-scale emigration by talented people. |
Chain migration | Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there. |
Circulation | Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis. |
Counterurbanization | Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries. |
Emigration | Migration from a location. |
Floodplain | The area subject to flooding during a given number of years according to historical trends. |
Forced migration | Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors. |
Guest workers | Workers who migrate to the more developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern and Eastern Europe of from North Africa, in search of higher-paying jobs. |
Immigration | Migration to a new location. |
Internal migration | Permanent movement within a particular country. |
International migration | Permanent movement from one country to another. |
Interregional migration | Permanent movement from one region of a country to another. |
Intervening obstacle | An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration. |
Intraregional migration | Permanent movement within one region of a country. |
Migration | Form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location. |
Migration transition | Change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition. |
Mobility | All types of movement from one location to another. |
Net migration | The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration. |
Pull factor | Factor that induces people to move to a new location. |
Push factor | Factor that induces people to leave old residences. |
Quotas | In reference to migration, laws that place maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year. |
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. |
Unauthorized immigrants | People who enter a country without proper documents. |
Voluntary migration | Permanent movement undertaken by choice. |