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vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Asylum | The right to protection in a country. |
| Brain Drain | The loss of trained or educated people to the lure or work in another-often richer-country. |
| Chain Migration | Migration in which people move to a location because others from their community have previously migrated there. |
| 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. |
| Circulation | Temporary, repetitive movements that recur on a regular basis. |
| Demographics | Data about the structures and characteristics of human populations. |
| Distance Decay | A principle stating that the farther away one thing is from another, the less interaction the two things will have. |
| Emigration | Movement away from a location. |
| Forced Migration | Migration in which people are compelled to move by economic, political, environmental, or cultural factors. |
| Friction of Distance | The longer a journey is, the more time, effort, and cost it will involve. |
| Gravity Model | A model that predicts the interaction between two or more places; geographers derived the model from Newton’s law of universal gravitation. |
| Guest Worker | A migrant who travels to a new country as temporary labor. |
| Human Trafficking | Defined by the United Nations as “the recruitment, transportation, harboring, or receipt of persons by improper means (such as force, abduction, fraud, or coercion)” |
| Immigration | Movement to a location. |
| Internal Migration | Movement within a country’s borders. |
| Internally Displaced Person | Movement to a location. Internal Migration-Movement within a country’s borders. |
| Interregional Migration | Movement from one region of the country to another. |