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hgap vocabs
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A nearby attractive locale where migrants may decide to settle instead of going to the intended destination farther away | Intervening Opportunity |
| The flow of all migrants from an origin to a destination | Migration Stream |
| A person who does not move | Non-Migrants |
| A person's location before migration | Origin |
| Factors that cause people to be dissatisfied with their present locales and want to move somewhere else | Push Factors |
| The act of a migrant leaving their place of origin | Emigration |
| All forms of geographical movement, including people's everyday commuting and travels | Spatial Mobility |
| Short-term and cyclical movement that occurs repeatedly on a regular basis | Circulation |
| Involuntary mass dispersions of a population from its home territory | Diaspora |
| A person who leaves their country of origin | Emigrants |
| The place where a migrant is going | Destination |
| People's friends and relatives | Social Networks |
| The process by which some people's migration to a new place lads their family members, friends, and others to move to the same place | Chain Migration |
| The forced removal of one ethnic group by another ethnic group to create an ethnically consistent territory | Ethnic Cleansing |
| The act of a migrant arriving at their destination city | Immigration |
| A phenomenon where a country or a place loses young, more educated, and skilled people through igratin | Brain Drain |
| Ethnic homeland in the US South | Black Belt |
| When people move within the borders of a country | Internal Migration |
| A person who moves | Migrant |
| Theory asserting that two contrasting sets of factors are at work in migration decisions | Push-Pull Theory of Migration |
| A gauge of the impact of migration on population change, determined by dividing a country's net migration by its total population, then multiplying by 1000, | Net Migration Rate |
| When moves are made across national borders | International Migration |
| Migrants going back to their previous place of residence or origin | Return Migration |
| Someone who remains within his or her country's borders despite being persecuted by their home country | Internally Displaced person |
| A phenomenon where orders and their livestock move seasonally between their summer and winter pastures | Transhumance |
| When people move from the countryside to cities | Rural-to-Urban Migration |
| The flow of all migrants in the direction opposite a particular migration stream, from its destination back to the origin | Counterstream |
| When migrants move back and forth between their home countries and those to which they have migrated | Transnational Migration |
| The attributes of other places that make them appealing to potential migrants | Pull Factors |
| The different between the number of in-migrants and out-migrants | Net Migration |
| moves that occur within a metropolitan area | Residential Mobility |
| The 20th-century movement of 6 million African Americans from the rural southern states to the cities of the midwestern and northeastern states | Great Migration |
| Migration that is done willingly | Voluntary Migration |
| A person with temporary permission to work in another country | Guest Worker |
| A person who arrives at their destination country | Immigrants |
| Migration caused by forces out of one's control, such as disasters, social conflicts, developmental projects | Forced Migration |
| A phenomenon where a country or place gains young, more educated, and skilled people through migration | Brain Gain |
| Geographer Wilbur Zelinsky's conclusion that there are regularities in migration as an essential component of a country's modernization process | Mobility Transition Model |
| Mobility that implies a change in social hierarchy | Social Mobility |
| Migration carried out in a series of stages, usually from nearby to bigger and more distant places | Step Migration |
| A person who leaves their country because of persecution based on race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, or political opinion | Refugee |
| The relatively stable relationship between the odds of migration and age across different countries | Migration Age Profile |
| Migration based on the time of year | Seasonal Migration |
| A complication that potential migrants will need to overcome to reach their destination | intervening Obstacle |
| When refugees or displaced persons return to their home country | Repatriated |
| The long-term or permanent relocation of individuals, families, or entire communities from one place to another | Migration |
Created by:
vasundhara.varadarajan