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Migration
ap human geography Hailey
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Push/Pull factors | push- negative conditions pull - positive conditions |
| Voluntary Migration | people relocate voluntarily |
| Forced | forced to migrate (jobs, terrain) |
| Transmigration | moving from one country or region to another |
| Refugee | Leaving your country because of unsafe conditions |
| Migration patters - intercontinental | traveling or capable of traveling between continents |
| Migration patters - interregional | Permanent movement from one region of a country to another |
| Migration patters - rural-urban | migration flow going frow rural to urban areas |
| Place utility | The process of increasing the attractiveness of a product to a group of consumers by altering its physical location |
| Activity space | the space within which daily activity occurs |
| Personal space | the space a person can reach without travelling |
| Space time prism | the set of all points that can be reached by an individual given a maximum possible speed from a starting point in space-time and an ending point in space-time |
| Distance decay | The farther apart two things are the less they react. |
| Step migration | A series of shorter, less extreme migrations from a person's place of origin to final destination |
| Chain migration | the social process by which immigrants from a particular town follow one another to a different city |
| Intervening opportunity | An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration |
| Cyclic movement | movement that has a closed route repeated annually or seasonally |
| Migratory movement | human relocation movement from a source to a destination without a return journey, as opposed to cyclical movement |
| Periodic movement | a form of migration that involves intermittent but recurrent movement, such as temporary relocation for college or service in the military |
| Transhumance | a seasonal periodic movement of pastoralists and their livestock between lowland and highland pastures |
| Interregional migration | Permanent movement from one country to another |