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Chapter 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Activity spaces | Places within the rounds of daily activity |
| Assimilation | When a minority group loses distinct cultural, such as dress, food, or speech, and adopts the customs of the dominant culture. Can happen voluntarily or by force. |
| Asylum seekers | Migrant who claims the right to protection as a refuge in a country other than their home country |
| Bracero Program | Laws and agreements passed in the U.S. and Mexico to encourage Mexicans to migrate to the United States to work in agriculture |
| Chain migration | Permanent movement from one place to another that follows kinship links. For example, a group of migrants settles in a place and then communicates with family and friends at their former location to encourage migration along the same pathe |
| Coyotes | A nickname given to a person who is hired to assist illegal immigrants into the US often at a cost that does not depend upon success of entry. |
| Cyclic movement | Regular journey that begins at a home base and returns to the exact same place. A form of movement |
| Diaspora | Dispersal of people from their homeland to a new place, either voluntarily, or by force |
| Distance decay | Decreasing likelihood of diffusion with greater distance from the hearth |
| Emigrants | People who permanently move out of their home country |
| Gravity model | Urban geography model that mathematically predicts the degree of interaction and probability of migration between two places |
| Guest workers | Migrants who are invited to a country to work temporarily, are granted work visa status, and are expected to return to their home country at the end of the visa |
| Gulags | Forced labor or prison camps. Most often associated with authoritarian countries |
| Human trafficking | A form of forced migration where people are involuntarily sold and traded for manual labor or as workers in the commercial sex trade |
| Immigrants | People who permanently move into a new country |
| Internal migration | Purposeful movement of people within a country from one location to another with a degree of permanence or intent to say |
| Internally displaced persons (IDP’s) | People who have been displaced within their home country and do not cross international boundaries |
| International migration | Purposeful movement of people from one country to another with a degree of permanence or intent to stay |
| Intervening opportunity | Presence of an opportunity near a migrant's current location that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of migrating to a site farther away |
| Islands of development | Cities in developing regions where foreign investment is concentrated and to which rural migrants are drawn |
| Net migration | Difference between the number of immigrants and the number of emigrants |
| Pastoralism | A type of cyclic movement when herders move livestock through the year to continually find fresh water and green pastures |
| Pull factors | Circumstances a migrant considers when deciding to migrate |
| Push factors | Circumstances a migrant considers when deciding to leave the home country |
| Refugees | Migrants who flee their country because of a political persecution and seek asylum in another country |
| Relocation diffusion | Spread of an idea or innovation from its hearth by the act of people moving and taking the idea or innovation with them |
| Remittances | Money that migrants send back to families and friends in their home countries, often in cash, forming an important part of the economy in many lower income countries |
| Repatriation | A refugee or group of refugees returning to their home country usually with the assistance of government or a non governmental organization |
| Reverse remittances | Money flowing from home countries to migrants in their destination countries |
| Snowbirds | Retired or semiretired people who live in cold states and Canada for most of the year and move to warm states for the winter |
| Transhumance | Migration pattern in which livestock are led to highlands during summer months and lowlands during winter months to graze |
| Unauthorized or undocumented migrants | Migrants who do not have legal permission to stay in the country where they live. Unauthorized migrants can be those who enter a country legally, as authorized migrants with a visa, and then stay when the visa expires. |
| Unauthorized or undocumented migrants (Cont.) | They can also enter a country without permission by crossing a border without legal approval |
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