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Chap. 3 Quiz 2 Vocab
Migration Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| island of development | a place (such as a coastal city) established by European colonialism that is well founded in trade |
| kinship links | types of push or pull factors that influence a migrant's decision to go where family or friends have already found success |
| laws of migration | a set of rules created by Ernst Ravenstein to answer why people voluntary migrate |
| migrant labor | a type of periodic movement where people cross international borders in search of employment and become immigrants |
| migration | a type of movement that implies a degree of permanence where the mover may never return home |
| military service | form of periodic movement including military personnel and their families who are moved to new locations where they will spend tours of duty lasting up to several years |
| nomadism | a type of (now) less common cyclical movement that is a matter of survival, culture, and tradition |
| periodic movement | a type of movement that involves longer periods away from home than cyclic movement |
| pull factor | reasons someone would want to come to an area |
| push factor | reasons someone would want to leave an area |
| quotas | limits put into place by governments on the number of immigrants who can enter a country each year |
| refugees | people who have fled their country in search of protection in another because of circumstances like persecution, war, and natural disaster |
| remittances | money that migrants send back to family and friends in their home countries, forming an important part of the economy in many poorer countries |
| repatriation | a process of returning refugees to their homelands after the violence or turmoil in those places ceases |
| reverse remittances | the flow of money from families in home country to their undocumented migrant family members |
| russification | the Soviet policy to promote the diffusion of Russian culture throughout the republics of the former Soviet Union |
| selective immigration | process to control immigration in which people with certain backgrounds, such as criminal records or poor health, are not allowed to migrate |
| step migration | a type of migration that involves moving in small increments over time in order to eventually end up in one place |
| transhumance | the action or practice of moving livestock from one grazing ground to another in a seasonal/periodic cycle |
| voluntary migration | a type of migration that may occur after a migrant weighs options and choices |
| regional scale | interactions occuring within a region |
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