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African Migration Pattern: Brain Drain, conflict, Civil war, S to N migration, slave trade, refugees
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Age dependency ratio: #of people under the age of 15 and above the age of 65 as a proportion of the working age
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Arable land: land that can be used for agriculture
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Arithmetic density: people per unit of land
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Asian migration pattern: supplies 23% of worlds migrants, most move within Asia, a bunch move to NA and europe
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Asylum: Protection from persecution granted by another country
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Authorized immigrants: Legal/permanent residences
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Brain Drain: migration of skilled professionals (doctors, teachers, etc) to another country where there is a higher pay
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Carrying capacity: natural limit on how many people can live in a certain area
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Cornucopian theory: is possible to support 10 mil people if we make changes
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Crude birth rate: the annual # of births per 1000 people
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Crude death rate: annual # of deaths per 1,000 people
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Demographic equation: 2009=2008+(births-deaths)/natural increase+net migration
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Demographic transition model: stage 1,2,3,4
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Emigration: the out migrated or departure of people
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European Migration pattern: before 1974 migration north to south within Europe. asylum seekers go mostly to Europe/Germany
from East-west Europe
Turkey-Europe
NAfrica-So. Europe
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Factors influencing fertility: biological factors, reproductive behavior, disease/poor diet, edu, cultural, social, economic, political factors
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Factors influencing mortality: war, poor medical care, natural disasters
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Food insecurity: people dont have access to basic food supplies
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Forced migration: person being discriminated against, must relocate and has no say in where they are being relocated to (war)
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Geodemography: study of spatial variation among human population
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Human trafficking: users force violence to recruit people for work
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Immigration: the in migration or arrival of people
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Infant mortality rate: # of deaths of infants under 1 yr old
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Internally displaced persons: people forcibly driven from their homes into diff part of country
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Latin American Migration pattern: before 1950's had most immigrants, mostly from spain, portugal, italy. Now region of emigration. economic instability (push factor)
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Life expectancy: average length of time person is expected to live
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Malthus: not able to support 10 mil people
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Migration: long term relocation of an individual or group from one place to another
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Neo Malthusians: people who share the same ideas of malthus
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North america Migration pattern: 1/2 of immigrants go to NA mostly from LA and Asia. Mexico has biggest source of immigrants to NA.
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Physiological density: people per unit of arable land
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Population control policies: 1 child policy (china), France (tax breaks for amount of kids), banning birth control
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Population density: how many people per unit of land
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Population ecology: examines impacts of pop on environment
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Population pyramid: bar graph that shows the age and gender of population
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Pull factors: favorable conditions somewhere else (cheap house, economy, jobs)
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Push factors: unfavorable conditions encourage people to migrate (economy)
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Ravensteins laws of migration: 1. Most migrations cover short distances and do not cross international borders
2. Migrants moving to towns and cities create gaps of open spaces that are filled by migrants moving from more distant places
3. Migration involves two opposite precesses: Dispersion and absorption
4. Migration flows produce counterflows
5. Urban areas are common destinations of long distance migrants
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Refugees: one who flees to another country for personal safety
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Replacement level: what birth rate need to be to keep population level (2.1)
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Sex ratio: proportion of males to females
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Total fertility rate: average # of children a women is expected to have during child bearing years (15-49)
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Unauthorized immigrants: temporary residents on a visa
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Voluntary migration: long term moving by choice (job opportunities)
