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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Activity Spaces | the daily routine of a person that take them through a regular sequence of short moves in a local area |
| Asylum | shelter and protection in one state for refugees from another country |
| Chain Migration | migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there |
| Cyclic Movements | Movement that has a closed route and is repeated annually or seasonally. |
| Distance Decay | the effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction |
| Forced Migration | imposition of power and authority, causing involuntary migration |
| Gravity Model | a mathematical formula that predicts the level of interaction between two places based on the size of their populations and their distance from each other |
| Guest Workers | legal immigrant who has work visa, usually short term, labor migrants |
| Immigration Laws | laws and regulations of a state designed specifically to control immigration into that state |
| Internal Migration | Migration that occurs within a country |
| International Migration | movement across country borders, external migration |
| Intervening Opportunity | The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away. |
| Islands of Development | places within a region or country where most foreign investment goes, where vast majority of paying jobs are located, and where infrastructure is concentrated, often coastal cities |
| Kinship Links | types of push or pull factors that influence a migrant's decision to go where family or friends have already found success |
| Laws of Migration | developed by British demographer Ernst Ravenstein, five laws that predict the flow of migrants |
| Migrant Labor | movement in which workers cross international borders for employment purposes |
| Migration | a change in residence intended to be permanent |
| Military Service | when military personnel and their families move to other countries |
| Nomadism | matter of survival, culture and tradition, seasonal movement along territory |
| Periodic Movements | movement that involves temporary, recurrent relocation |
| Pull Factors | circumstances that effectively attract people to certain locales from other places |
| Push Factors | conditions and perceptions that induce people to leave old residences |
| Quotas | established limits by governments on the number of immigrants who can enter a country each year |
| Refugees | people who have fled their country because of political persecution and seek asylum in another country |
| Remittances | money migrants send back to families |
| Selective Immigration | individuals with certain backgrounds are prevented from immigrating into a country, ex. criminal records, poor health, subversive activities |
| Transhumance | a system of pastoral farming in which ranchers move livestock according to the seasonal availability of pastures. |
| Voluntary Migration | permanent movement undertaken by choice, can be analyzed and understood |
| Brain Drain | Large-scale emigration by talented people. |
| Brain Gain | The opposite of brain drain; opening up new opportunities and bringing business experience and special skills |
| Circulation | Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis. |
| Diaspora | the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture) |
| Emigration | movement of individuals out of an area |
| Immigration | movement of individuals into an area occupied by an existing population |
| migration transition | Change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition. |
| Migration Stream | A constant flow of migrants from the same origin to the same destination. |
| Migration Selectivity | Combination of factors that predict a person's likelyhood to migration based on factors like age, gender, and education. |
| Mobility | all types of movement from one location to another |
| Net Migration | The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration. |
| Step Migration | migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village and later to a town and city |
| Time-Contract Workers | recruited for work but for only a fixed period of time by contract |
| Urbanization | the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban |
| Suburbanization | The process of population movement from within towns and cities to the rural-urban fringe. |
| Counterurbanization | Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries. |
| Unauthorized immigrant | An international migrant residing in the host country of destination who is not a citizen of the host country and has not been admitted for permanent residence |
| Deportation | the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien |
| 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 extermination of a racial or cultural group |
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