| Question |
Answer |
| Remittances |
Money migrants send back to family and friends in their hone countries which form an important part in economies of poorer countries. |
| Cyclic Movements |
Movement that has a closed route that is repeated annually or seasonally. |
| Activity Space |
The space in which daily activities occur. |
| Nomadism |
Movement among a definite set of places. |
| Periodic Movements |
Movement that involves temporary or recurrent relocation. |
| Migrant Labor |
a common type of periodic movement in which workers cross borders in search of jobs. |
| Transhumance |
A seasonal periodic movement of pastolists and their livestock between highlands and lowlands. |
| Military Service |
A common form of periodic movement involving as many as ten million U.S. citizens per year, who are moved to new locations where they will spend tours of duty. |
| Migration |
A change in residence, intended to be permanent. |
| International Migration |
Human movement across international boundaries. |
| Internal Migration |
Human movement within a country. |
| Forced Migration |
Human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate. |
| Voluntary Migration |
Movement in which people relocate in response to perceived opportunity, not because they are forced to. |
| Laws of Migration |
Five laws that predict the flow of migration. |
| Gravity Model |
A mathematical prediction of interaction of places. |
| Push Factors |
Negative conditions and perceptions that induce people to leave their abode and migrate to a new locale. |
| Pull Factors |
Positive conditions and perceptions that attract people to new locales. |
| Density Decay |
The effects of a distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction. |
| Step Migration |
Migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages. |
| Intervening Opportunity |
The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness for things far away. |
| Kinship Links |
Types of push or pull factors that influences a migrant's decision to go where family and friends have already found success. |
| Chain Migration |
Pattern of migration that develops when migrants move along and through kinship links. |
| Immigration waves |
Phenomenon whereby different patterns of chain migration build upon one another to create a swell in migration from one origin to the same destination. |
| Explorers |
A person examining an area that is unknown to them. |
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