Chapter 3 Migration
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35 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 remittances | money migrants send home to family |
| cyclic movement | shorter periods away from home |
| periodic movement | longer periods away from home |
| migration | degree of permanence the other two do not; mover may never return to home |
| activity spaces | space in which a person travels frequently |
| nomadism | matter of survival, culture, and tradition in which a group of people move in cyclic movements to find food and water |
| migrant labor | having migrants work in another country for cheap labor |
| transhumance | system of pastoral farming in which ranchers move livestock according to the seasonal availability of pastures |
| international migration | movement across country borders |
| immigration | people coming from another country into a country |
| internal migration | migration tha occurs within a single country's borders |
| forced migration | imposition of authority or power, a person has to move |
| voluntary migration | a migrant weighs upon options and choices and then decides to migrate |
| laws of migration | rules and principles of migration |
| gravity model | predicts interaction between places on the basis of their population size and distance between them |
| push factors | conditions and perceptions that help the migrand decide to leave a place |
| pull factors | circumstances that effectively attract the migrant to certain locales from other places |
| distance decay | the effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction |
| step migration | to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village and later to town and city |
| intervening opportunity | the presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away |
| kinship links | types of push factors or pull factors tha influence a migrant's decision to go where family or friends have already found success |
| chain migration | pattern of migration that develops whern migrants move along and through kinship links |
| global- scale migration | interactions occuring at the scale of the world in a global setting |
| explorers | person examining a region unknown to them |
| colonization | rule by an autonomous power over a supordinate and alien people and place. although often established and maintained through political structures, colonialism also creates unequal cultural and economic relations. |
| regional scale | interactions occuring within a region, in a regional setting |
| islands of development | place built up by a government or corporation to attract foreign investment and which has relatively high concentrations of paying jobs and infrastructure |
| refugee | people who have fled their country because of political persecution and seek asylum in another country |
| internally displaced persons | people who have been displaced within their own countries and do not cross international borders as they flee |
| asylum | shelter and protectionin one state fro refugees from another state |
| repatriation | a refugee or group of refugees returning to their home country, usually with the assistance of government or a non- governmental organization |
| genocide | deliberate killing of a certain group |
| immigration laws | laws and regulations of a state designed specifically to control immigration into that state |
| selective immigration | process to control immigration in which individuals with certain backgrounds are barred from immigrating |
| quotas | established limits by governmnets on the number of immigrants who can enter a country each year |
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