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MIGRATION

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Forced Migration   show
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Migration (migratory movement)   show
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show Has been forced to migrate to another country to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights, etc. and can't return for fear of persecution because of race, religion, nationality, etc.  
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show Is someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee.  
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Guest Workers (Time­‐ contract workers)   show
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Migration Transition Model (Zelinsky)   show
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Immigration (Immigrants)   show
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Mobility   show
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show Is the net migration from urban to rural areas.  
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show Is the difference between the number of immigrants and emigrants.  
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show Is a permanent move within the same country.  
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Internally displaced person (Dislocation)   show
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Pull Factor   show
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show Induces people to move out of their present location.  
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show Implies that the migrant has chosen to move, especially for economic improvement.  
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show Is a large scale emigration by talented people.  
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Chain migration (immigration waves)   show
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Illegal immigration   show
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show Is the term preferred by groups that advocate for more rights for these individuals.  
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Circulation (Cyclic, Seasonal, Transmigrational)   show
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show Is migration from a location.  
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show In reference to migration, laws that place maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year.  
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show Is when the number of immigrants exceeds the number of emigrants and the net migration is positive.  
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show Is when the number of emigrants exceeds the number of immigrants and the net migration is negative.  
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show Can be divided into three groups, the distance that migrants typically move, the reasons migrants move, and the characteristics of migrants.  
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External Migration (International or Intercontinental)   show
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show Occurs on a daily or weekly basis within the territory near a person's home.  
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show Occurs when people move with specific seasons or at specific times of the year.  
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show Is the movement of livestock based on the availability of food.  
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Demographic Equation   show
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show Are important for demographic predictions.  
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show Means that the further a location is the less likely a person is to move there due to the friction of distance. This is still an issue for many migrants, but technology and transportation are lessening the issues of distance.  
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Step migration   show
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show Such as mountains or discrimination (Can be environmental or cultural).  
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Intervening opportunity   show
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Migration Selectivity   show
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Gravity model of Spatial Interaction   show
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show Migration, (one nation establishing ownership in different territory).  
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show Offers preferable climates (replaced the name "Cotton Belt" as the area gained technology and industry).  
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Great Migration   show
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Population Centroid   show
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Acculturation   show
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show Is defined as a sequence of socially defined events and roles that the individual enacts over time.  
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Activity Space (large scale)   show
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Personal Space (small scale)   show
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show Is casual and unskilled workers who move about systematically from one region to another offering their services on a temporary, usually seasonal, basis.  
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show Is migration that takes place across international boundaries and between world regions.  
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show Is migration that runs opposite to a migration stream.  
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Remittance   show
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show Is a permanent movement from an agrarian sparsely populated region to a densely populated metropolitan area.  
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show Is a pattern of movement and settlement resulting from the collective action of distinctive social or ethnic group.  
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show Is the northern industrial United States, including Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, in which heavy industry was once dominant. Northern industrial states whose economies were declining as factories closed and people moved away in the 1960s and 1970s  
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show Are a constant flow of migrants from the same origin to the same destination.  
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show Is traveling from one's residence to one's regular place of business and back to the residence.  
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Amnesty programs   show
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Space-time compression (prism)   show
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show Is the South's previous name due to its agricultural poverty  
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show Are laws and regulations of a state designed specifically to control immigration into the state.  
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Infrastructure   show
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show Is the calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature.  
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show Is religious fundamentalism carried out to the point of violence.  
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Place Desirability (Place Utility)   show
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Eco-migration   show
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