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Unit 2 chapter 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Immigration | Moving into a location. |
| Emigration | Migration from a location |
| Net migration | The difference between the number of immigrants and the number of emigrants |
| Refugee | A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster |
| Internally Displaced Person (IDP) | Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an international border |
| Internal Migration | Permanent movement within the same country |
| International Migration | Permanent movement from one country to another. |
| Push Factor | Negative home conditions that impel the decision to migrate |
| Pull Factor | Positive attractions of the migration destination |
| Forced Migration | Human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate - Often by (+) checks |
| Voluntary Migration | Permanent movement undertaken by choice |
| Step Migration | Migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village and later to a town and city |
| Chain Migration | Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there |
| Brain Drain | Large-scale emigration by talented people. |
| Asylum seeker | Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee |
| Xenophobia | a fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers |
| 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 |
| Return migration | The voluntary movements of immigrants back to their place of origin. |
| Counter migration | movement of migration in the opposite direction |
| Guest Workers | Workers who migrate in search of higher-paying jobs. |
| Ethnic Enclaves | Neighborhoods where people from similar cultures live together and assert cultural distinction from the dominant group |
| Intervening obstacle | An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration. |
| Ravenstein's Laws of Migration | A set of 11 "laws" that can be organized into three groups: the reasons why migrants move, the distance they typically move, and their characteristics |
| Transhumance | The movements of livestock according to seasonal patterns, generally lowland areas in the winter, and highland areas in the summer. |
| intervening opportunity | The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away. |
| Gravity Model of migration | as the importance of an area increases, so will the movement to it. |
| Distance Decay | The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. |
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