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AP HUG

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Spatial Mobility   All forms of geographical movement, including people's everyday commuting and travels.  
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Social (upward) mobility   Change in social hierarchy  
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migration   Long–term relocation of individual, families, or communities from one place to another  
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migrant   a person who migrates or moves  
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non–migrants   People who do not move  
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Origin   A person's location before migration  
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destination   The place the migrant is going  
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emigration/out–migration   the act of leaving a place  
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immigration/in–migration   the act of arriving to a new place  
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immigrants   People who arrive at their destination country  
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migration stream   the flow of all migrants from an origin to a destination  
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counterstream   the flow of all migrants in the direction opposite a particular migration stream  
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Net migration   The difference between the number of in–migrants and out–migrants  
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net migration rate (NMR)   shows the impact of migration on population change. Divide the country's net migration by total population, then multiplying by 1000  
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Migration age progile   The relationship between the odds of migration and age across different countries  
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Brain Drain   when a country or place loses young, more educated, and skilled people through migration  
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Brain Gain   when a country or a place gains young, more educated, and skilled people through migration  
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Push–pull theory of migration   Theory asserting that two contrasting sets of factors are at work in migration decisions  
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push factors   reasons why people want to leave  
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pull factors   Reasons why people want to come into a place  
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Intervening obstacles   The complications that potential migrants will need to overcome to reach their destination  
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intervening opportunity   A nearby attractive locale where migrants may decide to settle instead of going to the intended destination farther away.  
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social networks   People's friends and relatives  
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Ravenstein's Laws   11 major "laws" migration tends to follow. Include: most migration is for economic reasons, mostly rural to urban.  
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Voluntary Migration   Migration that is done willingly  
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international migration   When moves are made across international borders  
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Guest worker   A person with temporary permission to work in another country  
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Transnational migration   When migrants move back and forth between their home countries and those to which they have migrated  
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internal migration/ interregional migration   When people move within the borders of a country  
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Great Migration   The 20th century movement of 6 million African Americans from the rural southern states to the cities of the midwestern and northeastern states  
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Rural to Urban migration   When people move from the countryside to cities  
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Residential mobility   moves that occur within a metropolitan area  
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Step migration   Migration carried out in stages, usually from nearby to bigger and more distant places  
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chain migration   The process by which some people's migration to a new place leads their family members, friends, and others to move to the same place  
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return migration   migrants going back, or returning, to their previous place of residence or origin  
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Seasonal migration   migration based on the time of year  
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transhumanance   a phenomenon where herders and their livestock move seasonally between their summer and winter pastures  
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Mobility transition model   Connects migration to the DTM. 1) Premodern societies, 2) early transitional societies, 3) late transitional societies, 4) advanced societies  
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circulation   short–term and cyclical movement that occurs repeatedly on a regular basis  
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forced migration   migration caused by forces out of one's control: disasters, social conflicts, developmental projects, slavery.  
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Refugees   people who leave their country because of persecution based on race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, or political opinion  
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Internally displaced person (IDP)   Someone who remains within his or her country's borders despite being persecuted by their home country  
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Ethnic cleansing   the forced removal of one ethnic group by another ethnic group to create an ethnically consistent territory  
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repatriation   when refugees or displaced persons return to their home country  
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Diaspora   Involuntary mass dispersions of a population from its home territory  
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Rohingya in Myanmar   An example of ethnic cleansing  
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Syrian civil war   An example of an armed conflict creating a large refugee population  
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Atlantic Slave Trade   An example of forced migration  
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Mongolian herders   example of transhumance  
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Snowbirds   An example of seasonal migration  
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New Great Migration   an example of return migration (Black Americans currently moving to the South from the North)  
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Moving to be with your family   An example of chain migration  
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Great Migration   An example of rural–to–urban migration\nAND internal migration  
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Bracero program   example of guest workers  
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Pastel's sister–in–law going back to Taiwan for 6 months to have a second child, before returning to the USA   example of Transnational migration  
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Hurricane Katrina   an example of a USA event that produced internally displaced people  
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Many Chinese immigrants go to New Zealand, settle there temporarily, then move to their final destination of Australia   An example of step migration  
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Paying $8,000 per person to be smuggled out of Syria on a boat   an example of a economic intervening obstacle  
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Carole was on her way to northern Europe but found a job styling hair in France   an example of an economic intervening opportunity  
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