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Chapter 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Asylum seeker | Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee |
| Brain drain | Large-scale emigration by talented people |
| Chain migration | Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there |
| Circular migration | The temporary movement of a migrant worker between home and host countries to seek employment |
| Circulation | Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis |
| Counterurbanization | Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries |
| Desertification | Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions such as excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting. Also known as semiarid lend degradation |
| Emigration | Migration from a location |
| Floodplain | An area subject to flooding during a given number of years, according to historical trends |
| Forced migration | Permanent movement, compelled by cultural or environmental factors |
| Guest worker | A term once used for a worker who migrated to the developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern or Eastern Europe or from North Africa in search of higher paying jobs |
| Immigration | Migration to a new location |
| Internal migration | Permanent movement within a particular country |
| Internally displaced person (IDP) | Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an international border |
| International migration | Permanent movement from one country to another |
| Interregional migration | Permanent movement from one region of a country to another |
| Intervening obstacle | An environmental or cultural feature of a landscape that hinders migration |
| Intraregional migration | Permanent movement within one region of a country |
| Migration | A form of relocation diffusion that involves a permanent move to a new location |
| Migration transition | A change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produces the demographic transition |
| Mobility | All types of movements between locations |
| Net migration | The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration |
| Pull factor | A factor that induces people to move to a new location |
| Push factor | A factor that induces people to move to a new location |
| Quota | In reference to migration, a law that places a maximum limit on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year |
| Refugee | Someone who is forced to migrate from his or her home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular group, or political opinion |
| Remittance | Transfer of money by workers to people in the country from which they migrated |
| Unauthorized immigrant | A person who enters a country without proper documents to do so |
| Voluntary migration | Permanent movement undertaken by choice |
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