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Migration Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| remittances | money migrants send back to family and friends in their home countries, often in cash, forming an important part of the economy in many poorer countries |
| cyclic movements | movement that has a closed route and is repeated annually or seasonally |
| activity spaces | also called action space; the space within which daily activity occurs |
| periodic movements | movement that involves temporary, recurrent relocation |
| nomadism | movement among a definite set of places; often cyclic movement |
| migrant labor | a common type of periodic movement that involving millions of workers in the U.S. and tens of millions of workers worldwide who cross international borders in search of employment and become immigrants, in many instances |
| transhumance | a seasonal periodic movement of pastoralists and their livestock between highland and lowland pastures |
| migration | a change in residence intended to be permanent |
| laws of migration | developed by British demographer Ernst Ravenstein, five laws that predict the flow of migrants 1. every migration flow generates a return or counter-migration 2. the majority of migrants move a short distance 3. migrants who move longer distaces tend to c |
| 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. |
| distance decay | the effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction |
| step migration | migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village and later to town and city |
| intervening opportunity | the presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away |
| kinship links | types of push factors or pull factors that influence a migrant's 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 wave | phenomenon whereby different patterns of chain migration build upon one another to create a swell in migration from one origin to the same destination |
| explorers | a person examining a region that is unknown to them |
| colonization | physical process whereby the colonizer takes over another place, putting its own government in charge and either moving its own people into the place or bringing indentured outsiders to gain control of the people and the land |
| islands of development | place built up by a government or corporation to attract 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 |
| refugees | people who have fled their country because of political persecution and seek 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 governments on the number of immigrants who can 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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