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Migration
Definition
ACTIVITY SPACE   the areal extent of a person's regularly visited places within a day  
CHAIN MIGRATION   migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there  
CYCLIC MOVEMENT   a closed route that is repeated annually or seasonally  
DISTANCE DECAY   the diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin  
FORCED MIGRATION   permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors  
GRAVITY MODEL   a model that holds that the potenial use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service  
INTERNAL MIGRATION   permanent movement within a particular country  
INTERVENING OPPORTUNITY   the existence of a closer, less expensive opportunity for obtaining a good or service, or for a migration destination  
MIGRATION PATTERN   the patterns that people tend to move to  
MIGRATORY MOVEMENT   denotes any movement by humans from one locality to another, sometimes over long distances or in large groups  
PERIODIC MOVEMENT   motion that recurs over and over and the period of time required for each recurrence remains the same  
PERSONAL SPACE   the "space bubble" or the kinesphere that one occupies; it includes all levels, planes, and directions both near and far from the body's center  
PLACE UTILITY   the desirability and usefulness of a place to the individual or to a group  
PUSH-PULL FACTORS   the push factor involves a force which acts to drive people away from a place and the pull factor is what draws them to a new location  
REFUGEE   a refugee is a person who is seeking asylum in a foreign country in order to escape persecution, war, terrorism, extreme poverty, famines, and natural disaster  
SPACE-TIME PRISM   the volume of space and length of time within which activities must be confined  
STEP MIGRATION   a series of small, less extreme locational changes occur in steps  
TRANSHUMANCE   the seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures  
TRANSMIGRATION   the belief in the successive reincarnation of the soul in different bodies  


   


 

 

 

 

 

 
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