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Hum Migration Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Internal Migration? | Moving to a new home within a state, country, or continent. |
| What is External Migration? | Moving to a new home in a different state, country, or continent. |
| What is Emigration? | Leaving one country to move to another (e.g., the Pilgrims emigrated from England) |
| What is Immigration? | Moving into a new country (e.g., the Pilgrims immigrated to America.) |
| What is Population Transfer? | When a government forces a large group of people out of a region, usually based on ethnicity or religion. This is also known as involuntary of forced migration. |
| What is Impelled Migration (also called "reluctant" or "imposed" migration)? | Individuals are not forced out of their country, but leave because of unfavorable situations such as warfare, political problems, or religious persecution. |
| What is Step Migration? | A series of shorter, less extreme migrations from a person's place of origin to final destination - such as moving from a farm, to a village, to a town, and finally to a city. |
| What is Chain Migration? | A series of migrations within a family or defined group of people. A chain migration often begins with one family member who sends money to bring other family members to the new location. Chain migration results in migration fields. |
| What is a migration field? | The clustering of people from a specific region into certain neighborhoods or small towns. |
| What is Return Migration? | The voluntary movements of immigrants back to their place of origin. |
| What is Seasonal Migration? | The process of moving for a period of time in response to labor or climate conditions. |
| What are all the types of Migration? (easy if you remember it to the tune of ABC/Twinkle Little Star) Total = 10 | Internal Migration, External Migration, Emigration, Immigration, Population Transfer, Impelled Migration, Step Migration, Chain Migration, Return Migration, and Seasonal Migration. |
| What is an Emigrant? | A person who leaves a country to RESIDE in another. |
| What is an Immigrant? | a person who is entering a country from another to take up new RESIDENCE. |
| What is a Refugee? | A person who is residing outside the country of his or her origin due to fear of persecution for reasons, of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. |
| What is an Internally Displaced Person (IDP)? | A person who is forced to leave his or her home region by the government because of unfavorable conditions (political, social, environmental, etc.) BUT DOES NOT CROSS ANY BOUNDARIES |
| What is a Migration Stream? | A group migration from a particular country, region, or city to a certain destination. |
| What are all the types of people who migrate or concepts related to it? Total = 5 | Emigrant, Immigrant, Refugee, IDP, and Migration Stream |
| Why do people migrate? Total = 5 | Push and Pull factors (environment, political, economic, and cultural) Place Utility, Intervening Opportunities, and Distance Decay. |
| What is a push factor? | Reasons for emigrating (leaving a place) because of a difficulty (such as a food shortage, war, flood, etc. |
| What is a pull factor? | Reasons for immigration (moving into a place) because of something desirable (such as a nicer climate, better food supply, freedom, etc.) |
| What is Place Utility? | The desirability of a place based on its social, economic, or environmental situation, often used to compare the value of living in different locations. An individual's idea of place utility may or may not reflect the actual conditions of that location. |
| What does Intervening Opportunities mean? | Opportunities nearby are usually considered more attractive than equal or slightly better opportunities farther away, so migrants tend to settle in a location closer to their point of origin of other factors are equal. |
| What does Distance Decay? | As distance from a given location increases, understanding of that location decreases. People are more likely to settle in a (closer) place about which they have more knowledge then in a (farther) place about which they know and understand little. |
| What are the Laws of Migration? Total = 7 (last one is in next question) | Most migrants travel short distance. Migrants traveling long ways usually settle in urban. Most migration occurs in steps. Most migration is rural to urban. Each migration flow produces a movement in the opposite direction. Most migrants are adults.+1 |
| What is the last Law of Migration? | Most international migrants are young males, while more internal migrants are female. |
| What are the impacts of Migration? | Diffusion, Relocation Diffusion, Expansion Diffusion, and Cultural Markers. |
| What is Diffusion? | The process through which certain characteristics (e.g., cultural traits, ideas, disease) spread over space and through time. |
| What is Relocation Diffusion? | Ideas, cultural traits, etc. that move with people from one place to another and do not remain in the point of origin. |
| What is Expansion Diffusion? | Ideas, cultural traits, etc., that move with people from one place to another but are not lost at the point of origin, such as languare. |
| What are cultural markers? | Structures or artifacts (e.g., buildings, spiritual places, architectural styles, signs, etc.) that reflect the cultures and histories of those who constructed or occupy them. |
| Moving from Jakarta to Surabaya is what type of migration? | Internal Migration |
| Moving from Jakarta To Singapore are what types of migration? | Internal (same continent), external (different country), emigration (leaving Jakarta), and immigration (going into Singapore). |
| The government forcing Hindus in Pakistan to leave Pakistan and go into India is what types of migration? | Population Transfer |
| Afghans migrating to Australia because of war is what type of migration? | Impelled Migration |
| A farmer moving from his farm to a nearby village, to Salatiga, to Surabaya, is what type of migration? | Step Migration |
| An Afghan moving to Australia, finding a job then sending back money for his family to come, and the eventually come, is what type of migration? | Chain Migration |
| An Afghan moving to Australia, receiving medical education, then returning to Afghanistan to help the sick and the wounded is what type of migration? | Return Migration |
| A man moving from Canada to America for the winters and then back up to Canada in the summer time each year is what type of migration? | Seasonal migration |
| A person moving from Jakarta to Singapore is what type of migrant? | An Emigrant (moving out of Jakarta) and Immigrant (moving into Singapore) |
| An Afghan moving to Australia is what type of migrant? | a Refugee |
| A North Colombian being forced to the South of Colombia by the government is what type of migrant? | an internally displaced person (IDP) |
| Many Afghans moving to Australia is what type of migration? | Migration Stream |
| Amarta Pura is an example of what type of migration concept? | a migration field |
| A family leaving a place because of war is what type of migration factor? | Push factor |
| A family going to America, because of freedom is what type of migration factor? | Pull factors |
| What the different reasons for a person to migrate? (push and pull factors) | Environmental (climate, natural disaster) Political, (war), Economic (work), and Cultural (religious freedom, education) |
| An Afghan WANTING to go to Australia, because of freedom is what type of migration concept? | Place Utility |
| A man is offered two job opportunities. One is in another city, the other is nearby. He chooses the one nearby. What type of migration concept is this? | Intervening Opportunities |
| A person from Salatiga knows more about Semarang, then he does about Singapore, so he decides to move to Semarang. What type of migration concept is this? | Distance Decay |
| A man traveling from Salatiga to Semarang follows which law of Migration? | The law that says most migrants travel only a short distance. |
| A man travelling from Vietnam to Australia, but settles in an Indonesian city instead of making the full journey follows which Law of Migration? | The one that says that migrants traveling long distances usually settle in urban areas. |
| A man using step migration, follows which law of migration? | the one that says that most migration occurs in steps. |
| A man moving from Tangerang, to Central Jakarta follows which Law of Migration? | The law that says that most migration is rural to urban. |
| A man from Jogjakarta moves to Jakarta and talks about good things about Jogjakarta, resulting in others moving to Jogjakarta is which Law of Migration? | the one that says each migration flow produces a movement in the opposite direction ("counterflow") |
| A group of adults immigrate to a new place. Which law of migration is followed? | the law that says most migrants are adults. |
| A group of men from the Mexico going to the U.S. and a group of women just moving from Southern Mexico to Northern Mexico follows which law of Migration? | the one that says most international migrants are young males, while more internal migrants are female. |
| The Sudanese refugee boys bringing their culture to America, but because of the war it somewhat lost there, is what type of diffusion? | Relocation Diffusion |
| Batik being spread around the world is what type of diffusion? | Expansion Diffusion |
| Indian Buddhist Temples being set up in the U.S. is which impact of migration? | Cultural Markers |
| What are the terms for measuring migration? Total = 6 | In-migration, out-migration, gross migration, net internal migration, movers from abroad, and net migration. |
| What is in-migration? | People moving into one place from another place WITHIN a nation |
| What is out-migration? | People moving out of one place to another place WITHIN a nation. |
| What is Gross Migration? | Total number of in-migrants and out-migrants. |
| What is net internal migration? | The difference between in-migration and out-migration. |
| What does Movers from abroad mean? | people coming into a nation from another country or part of the world |
| What is net migration? | the difference between net internal migration and movers from abroad. |