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Chapter 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| cyclic movement | Leaving home for a defined amount of time and returning home |
| activity spaces | Places within the rounds of daily activity. |
| snowbirds | aretired or semiretired people who live in cold states and Canada for most of the year and move to warm states like Florida, California, and Arizona for the winter. |
| pastoralism | when herders move livestock throughout the year to continually find freshwater and green pastures. |
| transhumance | a specialized form of pastoralism practiced in mountain areas when ranchers move livestock vertically to graze on highlands during summer months and lowlands during winter months. |
| relocation diffusion | Migrants take their cultural values and practices with them to their new location, thus making an imprint on the cultural landscape. (ex: little havana) |
| international migration | Purposeful movement of people from one country to another with a degree of permanence or intent to stay. |
| emigrants | those who migrate out of a country |
| immigrants | those who migrate into a country |
| net migration | |
| refugees | |
| remittances | |
| reverse remittances | |
| guest workers | |
| islands of development | |
| internal migration | |
| assimilation | |
| human trafficking | |
| gulags | |
| distance decay | |
| gravity model | |
| push factors | |
| pull factors | |
| intervening opportunity | |
| unauthorized/undocumented migrants | |
| coyotes | |
| chain migration | |
| repatriation | |
| asylum seekers | |
| IDPs | |
| Bracero program | |
| the ratio of people who emigrate to people who immigrate | |
| Migrants fleeing violence and persecution to find safety | |
| Money that migrants send back to families and friends in their home countries, often in cash, forming an important part of the economy in many lower income (peripheral) countries. | |
| Money flowing from home countries to migrants in their destination countries. | |
| migrants who were invited into a country to work temporarily, were granted work visa status, and were expected to return to their home country at the end of the visa | |
| cities in developing countries where foreign and domestic investment and job prospects are concentrated | |
| when migrants stay in the same country but move to a different part of the country | |
| When a minority group loses distinct cultural traits, such as dress, food, or speech, and adopts the customs of the dominant culture. Can happen voluntarily or by force | |
| the recruitment of people by force, coercion, deception, or abduction with the aim of controlling and exploiting the person for labor or sexual exploitation. | |
| prison labor camp | |
| the idea that the likelihood of a trait or innovation diffusing decreases the farther away in time or distance it moves from its origin (hearth) | |
| a mathematical prediction of the degree of interaction and probability of migration (and other flows) between two places is based on population size and the distance between them | |
| the conditions and perceptions that help a migrant decide to leave a place | |
| what attracts a migrant to a certain destination, the factors that help the migrant decide where to go | |
| Presence of an opportunity near a migrant’s current location that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of migrating to a site farther away | |
| Unauthorized migrants can be those who enter a country legally, as authorized migrants with a visa, and then stay when the visa expires. They can also enter a country without permission by crossing a border without legal approval. | |
| those who smuggle people across the border for a sizable fee. | |
| migration motivated by family members moving there too | |
| A refugee or group of refugees returning to their home country, usually with the assistance of government or a non governmental organization | |
| people who have left their home country where they are experiencing persecution and human rights violations and are seeking protection in another country, but have not been legally recognized as refugees | |
| internally displaced persons, people who must leave their homes but remain in their own countries. | |
| Laws and agreements passed in the U.S. and Mexico in 1942 to encourage Mexicans to migrate to the United States to work in agriculture. |
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