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Migration
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Movement that involves a short period away from home. | cyclic movement |
| Movement that involves longer periods away from home. | periodic movement |
| Movement that may never include a return home. | migration |
| A system of pastoral farming where ranchers move livestock according to the seasonal availability of pastures. | transhumance |
| Regular movement among a set number of places, with no permanent home. | nomadism |
| migration from country to country | international migration |
| migration from one part of a country to another region within the same country | internal migration |
| a person who leaves his/her country for another country | emigrant |
| a person who moves into a country from another country | immigrant |
| the area within which a person's daily activities (shopping, work, school, etc.) occur | activity space |
| the journey from work and back again | commute |
| something that makes a person want to leave his/her home | push factor |
| something that draws a migrant to a particular country | pull factor |
| the tendency for interaction between two places to decline as distance between the places increases | distance decay |
| an obstacle that prevents a migrant from reaching his/her intended destination | intervening obstacle |
| something that causes a migrant to voluntarily stop short of his/her intended destination | intervening opportunity |
| migration in which the migrants choose to move | voluntary migration |
| migration in which the migrants are forced to move | forced migration |
| migration waves that are driven by family and/or ethnic connections | chain migration |
| people who are forced to flee their home country due to political persecution and/or violence | refugees |
| geographer who created the "Laws of Migration" | Ernst Ravenstein |
| according to Ravenstein, migrants who travel longer distances tend to settle in these | large cities |
| the single most important cause for voluntary migration | economics |
| connections that people have with friends and family who have moved to a new place | kinship links |
| the largest forced migration in US history | slave trade |
| the forced return of illegal/undocumented immigrants | deportation |
| money that is sent by migrants to their home country | remittance |
| a refugee that stays in his/her home country rather than leave for another country | internally displaced person |
| many Irish immigrated to the US in the 19th century because of this | potato famine |
| in the early 19th century most US immigrants came from here | Great Britain |
| this event caused a drop-off in immigration during the mid-19th century | Civil War |
| Until the mid to late 20th century, most US immigrants came from this region | Europe |
| Currently the most important source for US immigrants is this country | Mexico |
| The second most important source for US immigration (region) | Asia |
| immigrants from Scandinavia tended to settle in this region of the US | upper midwest |
| the estimated number of undocumented immigrants in the US right now | 10-12 million |
| the dominant form of internal migration in most countries is this | rural-to-urban migration |
| the tendency for urban residents to move to suburbs or rural areas | counterurbanization |
| an area of a country or region that enjoys a higher level of prosperity and economic opportunity than the surrounding areas | island of development |
| a limit on the number of people that can legally enter a country | quota |
| the loss of a country's best and most talented individuals due to emigration | brain drain |
| a program that allows low-wage workers into a country to fill positions that are otherwise difficult to fill | guest worker program |
| official protection given by a host country for any refugee | asylum |
| Brazil tried to encourage migration to the ______ by building a capital city there. | interior |
| the most populated island in Indonesia | Java |
| over time the population center of the United States has shifted from | east to west |
| the primary pull factor for emigration to California during the 1840s and 1850s | gold rush |
| event in which Fidel Castro encouraged criminals and other "undesirable" people to migrate to the US | Mariel Boatlift |
| thousands of migrants from this country were granted refugee status in the 1970s after an American war there | Vietnam |
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