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Ap unit 2 terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Push Factors | Negative situation causing person to leave |
| Pull factors | Positive factors drawing people to a new location |
| Voluntary migration | movement of people from one place to another driven by choice |
| Guest worker | Migrants who are invited to a country to work temporarily but as soon as work finish they must leave back to their home town |
| Forced migration | The permanent movement of people compelled to relocate by factors. |
| Refugee | a person forced to flee their home country due to war, violence crossing international border |
| Internally displaced person | People forced to flee their homes due to armed conflict, but remain within border of their country |
| Repatriation | the process of returning a refugee or a migrant to their home country. |
| intercontinental | Trade that occur between different continents |
| International | Movement across country borders |
| Interregional | permanent movement from one geographic region of a country to another region within same country. |
| rural-urban | Dramatic shift from country to town |
| Place utility | Measure of an individual's satisfaction, or value of a specific location |
| Activity space | People move around travel during their routine. |
| Personal space | an invisible, bubble space |
| islands of development | Developing region where foreign investment is concentrated. |
| Space-time prism | the set of all points and locations that a person can reach in a given time |
| Distance decay | interaction between two places decreases as the distance between them increases |
| Step migration | a long-distance relocation that happens in shorter stages rather than one. |
| Chain migration | people move to a specific destination because family has settled their |
| intervening opportunity | Something positive causing them to stop from making it to final destination |
| cyclic movement | Journey that begins at a home base and returns to home base |
| migratory movement | relocation with no immediate intention of returning |
| Periodic movement | Temporary relocation that involves a long time away from home but back to home again. |
| Transhumance | Rancher moving livestock vertically to graze on highland during summer , lowland during winter to graze. |
| Remittance | Money migrants send back to home country |
| Deportation | Government forcing migrant to go back to home country |
| Genocide | Killing of specific category |
| intervening obstacles | Something negative causing them to stop from making it to final destination |