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AP Human Geography
chapter 2 from rubenstein
| words | definition |
|---|---|
| Brain drain | Large-scale emigration by talented people |
| Chain migration | Migration of people to a specific location becasue relatives or members of the same mationality 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 MDCs |
| Emigration | Migration FROM a Location |
| Floodplain | The area subject to flooding during a given number of years according to historical trends |
| Forced migration | Pernament movement compelled usuallly by cultural factors. |
| Guest workers | workers who migrate to MDC in search of higher-paying jobs. |
| Immigration | migration TO a new location |
| Internal migration | Pernament movement within a particular country. |
| International migration | Pernament movemnet from one country to another. |
| Interregional migration | Permanent movement from one region of a country to another. |
| Intervening obstacle | An environmental or cultral feature of the landscape that hinders migraton. |
| INTRAregional migration | Permanent movement within one region of a country. |
| Migration | From of relocation diffusion involving pernament 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 factors | Factors that induce people to move to a new location. |
| Push factors | Factors that induce people to leave old residences. |
| Quota | In reference to migration, a law that places 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. |
| Undocumented immigrants | People who enter a country without proper documents |
| Voluntary migration | Permanent movement undertaken by choice. |