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Chapter 3 APHumanGeo
Chapter 3 vocabulary for APHG.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Voluntary Migration | Permanent movement undertaken by choice. |
| Unauthorized Immigrants | People who enter a country without proper documents to do so. |
| Refugees | People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion. |
| Quotas | In reference to migration, laws that place maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year. |
| Push Factor | A factor that induces people leave old residences. |
| Pull Factor | A factor that induces people to move to a new location. |
| Net Migration | The difference between the level of immigration and emigration. |
| Mobility | All types of movement between location. |
| Migration Transition | A change in migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition. |
| Migration | A form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location. |
| Intraregional Migration | Permanent movement within a region of a country. |
| Intervening Obstacle | An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration. |
| Interregional Migration | Permanent movement from one region of a country to another. |
| International Migration | Permanent movement from one country to another. |
| Internal Migration | Permanent movement within a particular country. |
| Immigration | Migration to a new location. |
| Guest Worker | A term once used for a worker who migrated to the developed countries of Northern and Western Europe or from North Africa, in search of a higher-paying job. |
| Forced Migration | Permanent movement, usually compelled by cultural factors. |
| Floodplain | The area subject to flooding during a given number of years, according to historical trends. |
| Emigration | Migration from a location. |
| Counterurbanization | Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries. |
| Circulation | Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis. |
| Chain Migration | Migration of people to a specific location because relatives members of the same nationality previously migrated there. |
| Brain Drain | Large-scale emigration by talented people. |