AP human geography chapter 3
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 cyclic movement | involves shorter periods away from home |
| periodic movement | involves longer periods away from heme |
| migration | involves a degree of peremance the other two do not with migration the mover may never return home |
| activity spaces | the daily routine space |
| migrant labor | which involves millions of workers in the US and worldwide moving |
| transhumance | a system of pastoral farming in which ranchers move livestock according to the seasonal availibility of pastuers |
| miatary service | another from of periodic movemnt soilders get sent some where |
| international migration | movemnt across a country's borders aka: external migration |
| internal migration | migration that occurs within a single country's borders |
| remittances | people who receive legal immigrant money |
| nomadism | is a matter of survival, culture, and tradition |
| forced migration | invovles the impositon of authority or power producing involentary migration movemnts that can not be understood based on theries of choice |
| voentary migration | occures after a migrant weighs options and choices (even if desperately or no so rationally) and can be analyzed and understood as a series of options or choices that result in movement |
| laws of migration | devoloped by british demographer Ernst Ravenstein, five laws that predict the flow of migrants |
| push factors | are the conditions and perception that help the migrant decide to leave a place |
| pull factors | are the circumstances that effectively attract the migrant to a certain locale from other places, the descison on where to go |
| distance decay | the effedts of distance on interation generally the greater the distance the less interaction |
| step migration | to a distant desitnation that occurs in stages |
| interveining opportunity | the presistance of a nearer opportunity that greatly dimisshes the attractivness of sites farher away |
| kinship links | types of push or pull factors that influence a migration decision to go where family/friends found sucess |
| imigration waves | swells in migration from one orgin to the same destination |
| global scale | interaction occuring at the scale of the world in a global setting |
| explorers | a person examining a region that is unknown |
| colonization | a physical process where the colinizer takes over another place putting its own government in charge and ethier moving its own people into the place or bring indentured outsiders to gain control of the people and land |
| regional scale | interadtion occuring within a region, in a regional setting |
| islands of devolopment | place bulit up by a government or corporation to attract foregn investment and which has realatively high concentration of paying jobs and infrastructure |
| gues workers | labor migrants |
| internal refugees | people who have been displaced within their own countries- do not cross international borders |
| international refugees | have crossed one or more international borders during their move and encamped in a country other than thier own |
| asylum | shelter and protection one state for refugees form another state |
| refugee | people who have fled their country because of political persecution and seek asylum in a another country |
| immigration laws | laws and regulations of a state designed specifically to control immigration into that state |
| quotas | established limits by governments on the number of immigrants who can enter a country each year |
| selective immigration | in which individual with certain backgrounds (criminal records, poor health, subversive activites, ect.) are bnned from entering |
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