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2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.10, 2.11

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Malthusian Theory   Theory that population will grow exponentially while food output will not. This would result in a food shortage and famine due to overpopulation. Malthus said governments should intervene.  
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Neo-Malthusian Theory   Theory that shows concerns about sustainable use of the environment - the earth’s resources cannot only sustain a finite (limited) population. Looks at more than just food output (unlike original malthusian theory).  
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Pronatalist Theory   Government programs designed to increase the fertility rate and accelerate population growth.  
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Anti Natalist Theory   Government programs designed to decrease the fertility rate and slow down population growth.  
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Immigration Policies   Policies that look to control the population through laws targeting migration.  
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Ravenstein's Laws of Migration   Patterns and trends found in migration and migrants.  
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Migration   The permanent or semipermanent relocation of people from one place to another.  
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Push Factor   Negative circumstances, events, or conditions present in a location that causes people to move away.  
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Pull Factor   Positive conditions and circumstances of a location that encourages people to move to that place.  
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Intervening Obstacle   Barriers that hold migrants back from continuing to travel.  
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ESPeN hD   Economic, Social, Political, and Environmental, and Demographic causes and effects of migration.  
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Forced Migration   People relocate due to fears of violence or survival.  
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Refugee   Someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war or violence.  
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Internally Displaced Person   Someone who has been forced to flee their home but never crosses an international border.  
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Asylum Seeker   When people flee their own country and seek sanctuary in another country.  
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Voluntary Migration   People migrate due to their own choices.  
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Transnational Migration   Migration from one country to another country.  
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Transhumance   Traditional migration of nomadic herders that move their livestock from high elevations in the summer and lower elevations in the winter.  
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Internal Migration   Migrants that travel within a country’s borders. Much more likely than transnational migration.  
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Chain Migration   Immigrants migrate to a location based off of the recommendation of or reunification with family members, friends, or community members that have previously migrated to that location.  
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Step Migration   Migration typically occurs in steps, migrants reach their eventual destination through a series of smaller movements.  
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Guest Worker   Migrants who travel internationally in order to find work as temporary laborers - typically a short period of time because the jobs cannot be filled by a country’s own labor force.  
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Rural-to-Urban Migration   Most typical kind of migration trend, up to 55% of people live in urban areas today.  
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Boserup's Theory   Counter to what Malthus said, Boserup claimed that as population increases, humans will develop new technologies to also increase production of food supply.  
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