Migration Vocabulary
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| How distance reduces the amount of interaction among different places: | FRICTION OF DISTANCE
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| The sense that the world is becoming smaller..... coming together and having more contact with each other, even though the real distance between places remains the same: | SPACE-TIME COMPRESSION
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| The interaction between two places (through communication, economic transaction, migration or travel): | SPACIAL INTERACTION
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| Moving from your home to another place whether by choice or by force: | MIGRATION
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| Negative influences that make a person want to move away: | PUSH FACTORS
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| Positive influences that draw a person toward a new place: | PULL FACTORS
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| A pathway from a place of origin to a new destination: | MIGRATION STREAM
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| Possession of positive features that make people want to move there: | HIGH PLACE DESIRABILITY
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| A place that has more immigrants than emigrants: | NET IN-MIGRATION
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| A place that has more emigrants than immigrants: | NET OUT-MIGRATION
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| The movement of people moving back to the place of origin from a new place they had moved to: | MIGRATION COUNTERSTREAM
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| When people migrate to be with other people who migrated before them that they feel some connection to: | CHAIN MIGRATION
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| When migrants have an option of whether or not to move: | VOLUNTARY MIGRATION
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| When migrants are pushed from their land: | INVOLUNTARY MIGRATION
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| Migrants fleeing some form of persecution or abuse in their home land: | REFUGEES
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| Refugees who flee their country and move to another country: | INTERNATIONAL REFUGEES
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| Refugees who abandon their homes but remain in the same country: | INTRANATIONAL REFUGEES
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| Immigrants temporarily allowed into the country on a work permit | GUEST WORKERS
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| Money sent back home by guest workers to their family: | REMITTANCES
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| Movement of migrants within a country: | INTERNAL MIGRATION
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| Movement of migrants out of a country: | INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
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| Moving from one region in a country to another region of the same country: | INTERREGIONAL MIGRATION
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| Moving within a region; from one place to another within the same region: | INTRAREGIONAL MIGRATION
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| The movement of people from urban areas to rural areas: | COUNTERURBANIZATION
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| The movement of many African Americans from the southern U.S. to the northern U.S in search of industrial jobs and better treatment (during WWI): | GREAT MIGRATION
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| An area in the Northeast U.S. that experienced the closing of many industrial-era factories: | RUSTBELT
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| An area located in the Southern U.S. where the weather and the economies are good: | SUNBELT
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| The evaluation of how likely someone is to migrate based on personal, social, and economic factors: | MIGRATION SELECTIVITY
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| When most educated workers leave for more attractive places because of job, income, climate, etc: | BRAIN DRAIN
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| When regions invest little in education yet still see educated, skilled workers migrate there: | BRAIN GAIN
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| Says that larger places attract more migrants than smaller places: | GRAVITY MODEL
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| The area that you normally travel on a daily basis: | CYCLIC MOVEMENT or ACTIVITY SPACE
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| Impermanent movement that involves leaving your home for a short time in response to a change of season: | SEASONAL MOVEMENT
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| Impermanent movement that involves longer periods of stay such as serving in the military or going to college: | PERIODIC MOVEMENT
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| A place that people encounter while making a long journey that they like so much that they decide to stay: | INTERVENING OPPORTUNITY
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| A barrier that people might meet that prevents them from reaching their final destination: | INTERVENING OBSTACLE
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