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Unit 2 APHG
Population and Migration
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nomadism | Movement along a definite set of places Often Cyclic movement |
| Migrant Labor | Tens of millions of workers worldwide who cross international borders in search of jobs Type of Periodic movement |
| Transhumanance | a seasonal periodic movement of pastoralists and their livestock between high and lowland pastors |
| Migration | a change in residence intended to be permenent |
| International (External) Migration | Human movement involving movements across international borders |
| Internal Migration | Human movement within a nation-state, such as a ongoing westward and southward movements in the US |
| Forced Migration | human migration flows in which the movers have no choice |
| Voluntary Migration | movement in which people relocate in response to perceived opportunity not because they're forced to move |
| Laws of mirgration | laws that predict the movements of migrants |
| Gravity Model | a mathematical prediction of the interaction of places, the interaction being a function of population size of the respective places and the distance between them. |
| Push Factors | negative conditions that induce people to move away |
| Pull factors | Positive conditions and perceptions that effectively attract people to new locations from other areas. |
| Step Migration | Migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages |
| Intervening Opportunity | the presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away |
| Kinship Links | types of push/pull factors that influence a migrants decision to go where family or 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 the origin to the same destination |
| Colonization | physical process whereby the colonizer takes over another place, putting its own government in charge, and bringing in people. |
| Islands of Government | places built up by a government or corp. to attack foreign investment and which has relatively high concentrations of paying jobs and infrastructure. |
| Guest Workers | legal immigrant who has a work visa,, usually short term. |
| Refugee | people who have fled their country because of political persecution and seek asylum in another country |
| Internal Refugee | People who have been displaced within their own countries and do not cross international borders as they flee |
| International Refugee | Refugees who have crossed one or more international borders during their dislocation, searching for asylum in another country. |
| Asylum | Shelter and protection in one state for refugees from another state. |
| Immigration Laws | Laws and regulations of a state designed specifically to control immigration into that state. |
| Quotas | established limits by government on the number of immigrants who enter a country each year |
| Selective Immigration | Process to control immigration in which individuals with certain backgrounds are barred form immigrating |
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