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Migration Vocab

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show 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  
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show movement that has a closed route and is repeated annually or seasonally  
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activity spaces   show
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periodic movements   show
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nomadism   show
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migrant labor   show
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show a seasonal periodic movement of pastoralists and their livestock between highland and lowland pastures  
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show a change in residence intended to be permanent  
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laws of migration   show
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gravity model   show
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distance decay   show
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step migration   show
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show the presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away  
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kinship links   show
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chain migration   show
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immigration wave   show
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explorers   show
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show physical process whereby the colonizer takes over another place, putting its own government in charge and either moving its own people into the place or bringing indentured outsiders to gain control of the people and the land  
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show place built up by a government or corporation to attract foreign investment and which has relatively high concentrations of paying jobs and infrastructure  
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show legal immigrant who has a work visa, usually short term  
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show people who have fled their country because of political persecution and seek asylum in another country  
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show shelter and protection in one state for refugees from another state  
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Immigration laws   show
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quotas   show
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selective immigration   show
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