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Unit IV Vocab
pt 2 migration
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| migration | groups of people or animals moving from one region or country to another. |
| immigration | Migrating from into a country. |
| Emigration | Migrating from a country. |
| voluntary migration | a person's choice to relocate to an opportunity instead of an encroaching fear for safety. |
| push factors | Factors that will push people away froma country like fammine, war, genocide, ect. |
| pull factors | Factors that pull people into a country like job opportunities or economic prosperity. |
| asylum seekers | a person who has left their home country as a political refugee and is seeking asylum in another |
| intervening obstacles | an environmental or cultural feature that hinders migration. |
| Ravensteins laws of migration | set of 8 laws that follow the patterns of migration |
| distance decay | the name of the theory that states that as the distance between two places increases, the interaction between those two places decreases. |
| Gravity model of migration | The farther apart the two locations are, however, the movement between them will be less. |
| step migration | Migration that follows a path of a series of stages or steps towards a final destination. |
| counter migration | The return of migrants to the regions from which they earlier emigrated. |
| return migration | the voluntary movements of immigrants back to their place of origin. Also known as circular migration |
| Forced Migration | when people are made to leave their home or homeland. |
| Transnational Migration | a process of movement and settlement across international borders in which individuals maintain or build multiple networks of connection to their country of origin while at the same time settling in a new country |
| Transhumance Migration | A pattern of regular seasonal movement by human groups. It can be seen as a form of pastoralism or nomadism which is when livestock is moved seasonally between one area of pasture and another |
| Guest Worker | legal immigrant who has work visa, usually short term. refugees. people who have fled their country because of political persecution and seek asylum in another country. |
| Net Migration | he difference between the number of immigrants (people coming into an area) and the number of emigrants (people leaving an area) throughout the year. |
| Unauthorized Immigrant | People who enter a country without proper documents, also known as undocumented immigrants. |
| Internally Displaced Person | People who have been displaced within their own countries and do not cross international borders as they flee. |
| Refugees | a person who flees, is displaced, or is forced to leave his or her home country. |
| Chain Migration | When someone moves to a new place and they save up money to send family members to that place. One by one relatives will follow that person to the new country or destination. |
| Circular Migration | -The temporary movement of a migrant worker between home and host countries to seek employment. |
| Ethnic Enclaves | A social division based on national origin, religion, language, and often race, like Little Italy or ChinaTown. |
| Xenophobia | Fear or dislike of foreigners significantly different from oneself. |
| Brain Drain | the large-scale emigration of a large group of individuals with technical skills or knowledge. |
| Remittances | Money migrants send back to family and friends in their home countries, often in cash, forming an important part of the economy in many poorer countries. Could also be money to help bring family to the new country that someone immigrated to. |
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