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Migration Terms
AP HUG
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| remittance | money that immigrants send to their families back home |
| cyclic movement | when migrants are movement on the path seasonally or yearly |
| periodic movement | movement that is temporary, but recurrant |
| migration | moving to a different place |
| nomadism | not living in the same place all the time |
| transhumance | moving livestock from one grazing field to another |
| international migration | movement across country boarders |
| internal migration | moving within a single country's boarder |
| forced migration | being forced out of your living area |
| voluntary migration | choosing to move out of an area |
| Laws of migration | tendencies that typically happen during migration |
| gravity model | when two places become more important, there will be an increase of movement between them |
| push factors | factors that push people away from an area |
| pull factors | factors that pull people towards an area |
| internally displaced person | someone who has been forced to migrate, but not across international boarders |
| step migration | moving in steps from place to place |
| intervening opportunity | something that makes a migrant want to move to a different place |
| deportation | getting kicked out of a country |
| kinship links | permanent movement from one place to another |
| chain migration | where one person will move, then the others will follow to the same area |
| intervening obstacle | something that prevents a migrant from getting somewhere |
| xenophobia | dislike of/or prejudice against people from other countries |
| islands of development | places when the economy is doing good compared to the places around it |
| guest workers | someone who is permitted to live and work temporarily |
| refugees | someone who has had to flee where they live due to war |
| internal refugees | refugee that has only fled inside a country |
| international refugees | refugees that have fled to a different country |
| asylum | protection from danger given by a country |
| immigration laws | laws need to follow to immigrate |
| immigration quotas | the limit on the amount of refugees that can enter a country per year |
| selective migration | choosing where to migrate based off the characteristics of a place |
| genocide | the killing off of a specific group of people |
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