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Chapter 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cyclic Movement | A regular journey that begins at a homebase in returns to the exact place (a form of movement) |
| Activity Spaces | Places within the rounds of daily activities |
| Snowbirds | Retired people who live in cold states for the summer and spring and move to warm states for the winter and fall |
| Pastoralism | A type of cyclic movement when herders move life stock through the year to continually find freshwater and green pastures |
| Transhumance | A migration pattern in which livestock or lead to highlands during summer months and low lands during winter months to graze |
| Relocation Diffusion | The spread of an idea or innovation from its hearth by the active people moving in taking the idea or innovation with them |
| International Migration | Immigration across country borders |
| Emigrants | A person who permanently moves out of their home country |
| Immigrants | A person who permanently moves into a new country |
| Net Migration | Difference between the number of immigrants and the number of immigrants in a country |
| Refugees | Migrants who fled their country because of political persecution and seek asylum in other countries |
| Reverse Remittances | Money that flows from migrants’ home countries to them in their destination country |
| Guest Workers | Migrants who are invited into a country to work temporarily are granted a work visa status and expected to return to their home country after the end of the visa |
| Island Of Development | Cities in developing regions where foreign investment is concentrated into which rural migrants are drawn |
| International Migration | Purposeful movement of people from one country to another with a degree of permanence or intent to stay |
| Diaspora | Dispersal of a people from their homeland to a new place, either voluntarily or by force |
| Assimilation | What is my Nordie group loses distinct cultural traits such as dress, food, or speech, in adopt the customs of the dominant culture (can happen voluntarily or by force’ |
| Human Trafficking | A form of forced migration were people are in voluntarily sold and traded for manual labor or as workers in the sex trade |
| Gulags | Forced labor or prison labor camps (most often associated with authoritarian countries) |
| Distance Decay | Decreasing likelihood of diffusion with greater distance from the hearth |
| Gravity Model | Urban geography model that mathematically predict the degree of interaction and probability of migration between two places |
| Push Factors | Circumstances of migrant considers when deciding to leave their home country |
| Pull Factors | Circumstances a migrant considers when deciding where to migrate |
| Intervening Opportunity | Presence of an opportunity near migrants current location that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of migrating to a site farther away |
| Unauthorized or Undocumented Migrants | Migrants who do not have legal permission to stay in the country they live (crossing a border illegally, or staying after a visa expires) |
| Coyotes | People who smuggle other across the border for a sizable fee |
| Chain Migration | Permanent movement from one place to another that follows kinship links |
| Repatriation | A refugee or group of refugees returning to their home country, usually with the assistance of government or non-governmental organization |
| Asylum-seekers | Migrants who claim the right to protection as a refugee in a country other than their home country |
| Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) | People who have been displaced within their home country and do not cross international borders |
| Bracero Program | Laws and agreements passed in the US and Mexico in 1942 to encourage Mexicans to migrate to the United States to work in agriculture |
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