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Chapter 3
Question | Answer |
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Remittances | Money migrants send back to family and friends in their hone countries which form an important part in economies of poorer countries. |
Cyclic Movements | Movement that has a closed route that is repeated annually or seasonally. |
Activity Space | The space in which daily activities occur. |
Nomadism | Movement among a definite set of places. |
Periodic Movements | Movement that involves temporary or recurrent relocation. |
Migrant Labor | a common type of periodic movement in which workers cross borders in search of jobs. |
Transhumance | A seasonal periodic movement of pastolists and their livestock between highlands and lowlands. |
Military Service | A common form of periodic movement involving as many as ten million U.S. citizens per year, who are moved to new locations where they will spend tours of duty. |
Migration | A change in residence, intended to be permanent. |
International Migration | Human movement across international boundaries. |
Internal Migration | Human movement within a country. |
Forced Migration | Human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate. |
Voluntary Migration | Movement in which people relocate in response to perceived opportunity, not because they are forced to. |
Laws of Migration | Five laws that predict the flow of migration. |
Gravity Model | A mathematical prediction of interaction of places. |
Push Factors | Negative conditions and perceptions that induce people to leave their abode and migrate to a new locale. |
Pull Factors | Positive conditions and perceptions that attract people to new locales. |
Density Decay | The effects of a distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction. |
Step Migration | Migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages. |
Intervening Opportunity | The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness for things far away. |
Kinship Links | Types of push or pull factors that influences a migrant's decision to go where family and friends have already found success. |
Chain Migration | Pattern of migration that develops when migrants move along and through kinship links. |
Immigration waves | 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 an area that is unknown to them. |