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Human Geography
Chapter 3: Migration
Question | Answer |
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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. |
Counterurbanization | Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries. |
Emigration | Migration from a location. |
Forced Migration | Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors. |
Guest Worker | A term once used for a worker who migrated to the developed countries of northern and western Europe , usually from southern and eastern Europe or 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. |
Iterreregional Migration | Permanent movement from one region of a country to another. |
Intraregional Migration | Permanent movement within one region of a country |
Migration | Form of relocative 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. |
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( or undocumented)immigrants | People who enter a country without proper documents. Permanent movement undertaken by choice. |