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Ch 5 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mobility | All types of movement from one location to another, whether temporary or permanent or over short or long distances |
| Circulation | Temporary, repetitive movements that recur on a regular basis |
| Human Migration | The permanent movement of people from one place to another |
| Emigration | Movement away from a location |
| Immigration | Movement to a location |
| Net Migration | The difference between the number of emigrants and immigrants in a location, such as a city or country |
| Gravity Model | A model that predicts the interaction between two or more places; geographers derived the model from Newton's law of universal gravitation |
| Push Factor | A negative cause that compels someone to leave a location |
| Pull Factor | A positive cause that attracts someone to a new location |
| Internal Migration | Movement within a country's borders |
| Friction of Distance | A concept that states the longer a journey is, the more time, effort and cost it will involve |
| Transhumance | The movement of herds between pastures at cooler, higher elevations during the summer months and lower elevations during the winter |
| Chain Migration | Type of migration in which people move to a location because others from their community have previously migrated there |
| Step Migration | Series of smaller moves to get to the ultimate destination |
| Intervening Obstacle | An occurrence that hold migrants back |
| Intervening Opportunity | An occurrence that causes migrants to pause their journey by choice |
| Guest Workers | A migrant who travels to a new country as temporary labor |
| Circular Migration | Migration pattern in which migrant workers move back and forth between their country of origin and the destination country where they work temporary jobs |
| Refugee | A person who is forced to leave their country for fear of persecution or death |
| Asylum | The right to protection in a country |
| Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) | Person who has been forced to flee their home but remains within the country's borders |
| Human Trafficking | Defined by the UN as the "recruitment, transportation, harboring, or reciept of persons by improper means (such as force, abduction, fraud, or coercion)" |
| Repatriate | To return to one's home country |
| Interregional Migration | Movement from one region of a country to another |
| Intraregional Migration | Movement within one region of the country |
| Quotas | Limit on the number of immigrants allowed into the country each year |
| Kinship Links | Networks of relatives and friends |
| Skills Gap | A shortage of people trained in a particular industry |
| Remittances | Money earned by an emigrant abroad and sent back to their home country |
| Brain Drain | The loss of trained or educated people to the lure of work in another - often richer - country |
| Relocation Diffusion | The spread of culture traits through the movement of people |
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