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APHG Migratiion
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Push-pull Factors | Factors that either draw a person to country, or cause a person to want to leave their home country. |
| Voluntary Migration | Movement that people chose to do, usually for better jobs, life, or safety. |
| Forced Migration | The people were forced to leave their homes and abandon their property children and wife |
| Transmigration | migrate, move from one place to another & settle there. |
| Refugee | a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. |
| Types of Migration patterns | Intercontinental Migration Patterns, Interregional Migration Patterns, Rural-Urban Patterns |
| Intercontinental Migration Patterns | permanent movement from one country to another country |
| Interregional Migration Patterns | permanent movement within one region of a country |
| Rural-Urban Patterns | permanent movement from the country to the city |
| Place Utility | How much a person likes where he lives. |
| Activity space | The space where daily activity occurs. |
| Personal space | The space a man claims for himself and none shall take it from him. |
| Space-time prism | How far we can go in an amount of time, limited by our needs |
| Distance decay | As distance increases, the less impact the moment has. |
| Step Migration | Migration that happens in stages, from one place to another |
| Chain Migrations | Migration of people from one family moving to follow a family member who has already left for that place. |
| Intervening opportunity | A place that attracts a man more than his destination in step migration, that causes him to live there. |
| Cyclic movement | Movement that goes back and forth between the destination and home, by annually or seasonally. |
| Migratory movement | Movement that which a man crosses national borders to find better working conditions or life, and permanently live in the destination. (Immigrants) |
| Periodic movement | longer movements from home, but are temporary. |
| Transhumance | seasonal movement of livestock |
| Interregional migration | permanent move to another region. |