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Migration
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Migration | Definition |
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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 |