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APHG Unit 2 Quiz 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Protection granted by one country to an immigrant of another country who has a legitimate fear of harm or death if they return. Shelter and protection for refugees. | Asylum |
| Large-scale emigration from people with technical skills or knowledge. | Brain Drain |
| A geographical point that describes a centerpoint of the region's population | Center of Population |
| Migration that develops when migrants move along through links (relatives or people with similar backgrounds.) | Chain Migration |
| Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis | Circulation |
| Term used by the American South to represents how cotton dominated the agricultural economy of the region. | Cotton Belt |
| The movement in the opposite direction produced by a migration flow | Counter Migration |
| Movement - for example, nomadic migration - that has closed route and is repeated annually or seasonally. | Cyclic Movement |
| the diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin | Distance Decay |
| Migration from a location | Emigration |
| Person who has left the inner city (prosperous residential districts beyond the suburbs) to live in the suburbs. | Exurbanites |
| Migration when individuals are made to leave against their will (xenophobia, violence, persecution.) | Forced Migration: |
| A places physical central point. | Geographic Center |
| Workers who migrate to the more developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa in search of higher-paying jobs | Guest Workers |
| Migration to a new location | Immigration |
| The permanent or semi permanent movement of individuals within a particular country (still inside of country) | Internal Migration |
| People who are forced to flee their home but stay within the country’s border. | Internally Displaced Persons |
| Human movement involving moment across international boundaries | International Migration |
| Permanent movement from one region of a country to another | Interregional Migration |
| Permanent movement within one region of a country | Intraregional Migration |
| An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration | Intervening Opportunities |
| Form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location | Migration |
| Change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition | Migration Transition |
| All types of movement from one location to another | Mobility |
| The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration | Net Migration |
| factor that induces people to move to a new location | Pull Factors |
| factor that induces people to leave old residences | Push Factors |
| In reference to migration, laws that place maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year | Quotas |
| A set of 11 "laws" that can be organized into three groups: the reasons why migrants move, the distance they typically move, and their characteris | Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration |
| People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion | Refugees |
| Transfers of money or goods by foreign workers to their home countries | Remittance |
| Northern, Industrial States of the United States, (Ill, Penn, etc) where heavy industry was once a dominant economic activity. In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, these states lost much of their economic base to other regions of the USA, removing its need. | Rust Belt |
| (“Premodern traditional society”): There are very high levels of mobility (nomadism), but very little migration. | Stage 1 |
| (“Early transitional society”) A “massive movement from countryside to cities" occurs. And Internationally there is a high rate of emigration, although the total population number is still rising. | Stage 2 |
| (“Late transitional society”): Is the “critical rung...of the mobility transition” where urban-to-urban migration surpasses the rural-to-urban migration, where rural-to-urban migration “continues but at waning absolute or relative rates”, | Stage 3 |
| (“Advanced society”): The “movement from countryside to city continues but is reduced in absolute and relative terms, movement of migrants from city to city and within individual urban agglomerations...especially within a highly metropolis. | Stage 4 |
| Region of the USA mostly comprised of the southeastern and southwestern states, which has seen an increase in its population and economic prosperity since World War II. It had rapid growth in the recent decades. | Sun Belt |
| The process of people moving, usually from cities, to residential areas on the outskirts of cities | Suburbanization |
| A pattern of regular, seasonal movement of people. | Transhumance |
| People who enter a country without proper documents | Undocumented Imigrants |
| The process of developing towns and cities | Urbanization |
| Movement in which people relocate in response to perceived opportunity; not forced | Voluntary Migration |
| A strong dislike of people of another culture | Xenophobia |
| Migration of a distant distance that occurs in stages (series of things), for example: Farm→Village→City. | Step Migration |
| The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away. | Intervening Opportunity |
| Geographer associated with migration transition--change in the migration pattern in a society that results from the social and economic changes that produce the demographic transition. Stage 2--international. Stage 3&4--internal. | Wilbur Zelinsky |
| Known as the Migration Transition Model. Migration that occurs within a country depends if PED or PING or what type of society it is. A connection is used from migration to the stages of the Demographic Transition Model (DTM). (Developed by Zelinsky.) | Zelinsky Transition Model |
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