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Chapter 5 Vocab
Human Geo Chapter 5 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mobility | All types of movement from one location to another, whether temporary or permanent or over short or long distances |
| Human migration | The permanent movement of people from one place to another |
| Emigration | Movement away from a location |
| Immigration | Movement to a location |
| Circulation | Temporary, repetitive movements that recur on a regular basis |
| Net migration | The difference between the number of emigrants and immigration in a location, such as a city or a country |
| Gravity Model | A model that predicts the interaction between two or more places; geographers derived that model from the Newton's law of the universal gravitation |
| Push factor | A negative cause that compels someone someone to leave a location |
| Pull factor | A positive cause that attracts someone to a new location |
| Voluntary Migration | Type of migration in which people make the choice to move to a new place |
| Forced migration | Type of migration in which people are compelled to move by economic, political, environmental, or cultural factors |
| Transnational migration | International migration in which people retain strong cultural, emotional, and financial ties with their countries of origin |
| Internal migration | Movement within a country's borders |
| Friction of distance | A concept that states that the longer a journey, is the more time, effort, and cost it will involve. |
| Transhumance | The movement of herds between pastures at cooler, higher elevations during the summer months and lower elevations during the winter |
| Chain migration | Type of migration in which people move to a location because others from their community have previously migrated there |
| Step migration | Series of smaller moves to get to the ultimate destination |
| Intervening obstacle | An occurrence that holds migrants back |
| Intervening opportunity | An occurrence that causes migrants to pause their journey by choice |
| Guest worker | A migrant who travels to a new country as temporary labor |
| 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. |
| Refugee | A person who is forced to leave his or her country for fear of persecution or death |
| Asylum | The right to protection in a country |
| Internally displaced person | Person who has been forced to flee his or her home but remains within the country's borders |
| Human trafficking | Defined by the United Nations as "the recruitment, transportation, harboring, or receipt of person's by improper means(such as force, abduction, fraud, or coercion)" |
| Repatriate | To return to one's home country |
| Interregional migration | Movement from one region of the country to another |
| Intraregional migration | Movement within one region of the country |
| Quota | Limit on the number of immigrants allowed into the country each year |
| Kinship links | Networks of relatives and friends |
| Skills gap | A shortage of people trained in a particular industry |
| Remittance | Money earned by a emigrant abroad and sent back to his or her home country |
| Brain drain | The loss of trained or educated people to the lure of work in another-often richer-country |
| Relocation diffusion | The spread of culture traits through the movement of people |
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Samanvi Uppala