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Migration Chap 3
stuff for HUG chap 3 test
Question | Answer |
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3 push and pull factors | economic, environmental, cultural |
immigrant | enter country |
emigrant | leave country |
international | country to country |
internal | city to city (within a country) |
two types of interal migration | interregional, intraregional |
interregional | one region to other region |
intraregional | staying in same region |
urbanization | rural to cities |
brain drain | countries overpopulated and really smart people leave to get jobs, leave country with majority people with no skills |
suburbanization | cities to suburbs |
counter urbanization | back to farms |
who came up with migration transition? | Wilbur zelinsky |
stage 1 | virtually no migration |
stage 2 | international emigrants |
stage 3 | internal migrants |
stage 4 | international immigrants |
who is EG Ravenstein? | late 1800s studier of migration |
what was EG Ravenstein famous for? | his migration laws |
what were the three major periods of migration to the united states | colonial america, 1800s early 1900s European immigration, Today + or - |
2 places of migration in colonial america | europe and africa |
what kind of migrants came from europe in the colonial period and why | voluntary migrants, because of economic reasons |
what kind of migrants came from africa and why | forced migrants because of slavery |
What were the two waves of European immigration | 1840s-50s and 1880s-1910s |
who migrated in 1840s and 50s | northern and western Europe- Britain, Ireland, and Germany; christian protestants |
who migrated in 1880s and 1910s | southern and eastern Europe- Italy, Russia, Poland |
why were the new immigrants of 1880-1910 discriminated against? | because they were catholic and jews |
who migrated to the US in the Today period? | Latin america (mexico) and asia |
chain migration | migration of people to a specific location because relatives of members of the same nationality previously migrated there. |
circulation | short term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis |
floodplain | the area subject to flooding during a given number of years according to historical trends |
guest workers | workers who migrate to the more developed countries of northern and western europe usually from southern and eastern europe of from north america in search for higher paying jobs |
intervening obstacle | an environmental OR Cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration |
migration | form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location |
migration transition | change in the migration pattern in a society that RESULTS FROM INDUSTRIALIZATION, POPULATION GROWTH, ANOTHER SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGES THAT ALSO PRODUCE THE DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION. |
mobility | all types of movement from one location to another |
net migration | the difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration |
pull factor | factor that induces people to move to a new location |
push factor | factor that induces people to leave old residence |
quotas | in reference to migration, laws that place maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year |
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 |
undocumented immigrants | people who enter a country without proper documents |