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Chapter 3: Migration

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Activity Space
The space within which daily activity occurs
Amnesty
A general pardon for an offense against a government; in general, any act of forgiveness or absolution
Asylum Seeker
Someone who has migrated to another country in hope of being recognized as a refugee.
Brain Drain
Large-Scale emigration by talented people.
Chain Migration
Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there.
Circulation
Short-Term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis.
Cotton Belt
A region stretching from South Carolina to east Texas where most of U.S. cotton was grown during the mid-1800's
Counter-urbanization
Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries.
Emigration
Migration from a location*

E as in Export, leave.
Flood Plain
Area subject to flooding during a given number of years, according to historical trends.
Forced Migration
Permanent movement, usually compelled by cultural factors.
Political or Religious Persecution.
Guest Workers
A term once used for a worker who migrated to the developed countries of Northern & Western Europe, usually from Southern & Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of a higher paying job.
Hollow Core
The area in North Mexico with a lower population density
Immigration
Migration to a new location*

IM as import, come in!
Intercontinental Migration
Permanent movement from one country to a different country on the same continent.
Internally Displaced People
Someone who has been forces to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an international boarder.
Internal Migration
Permanent movement within a particular country.
International Migration
Permanent movement fro one country to another.
Interregional Migration
Permanent movement fro one region of a country to another*

California to Louisiana
Intervening Obstacle
An environmental or cultural feature of the land scape that hinders migration.*

Appellation Mountains hindered the early European settlers
Intervening Opportunity
The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away.
Intraregional Migration
Permanent movement within one region of the country*

Louisiana to Texas
Migration
A form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location
Migration Transition
A change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economical changes that also produce the demographic transition.
Mobility
All types of movement between location.
Net Migration
The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration.
Immigrants - Emigrants = Net Migration
Place Utility
Incentives such as tax breaks and increased recreational opportunities that communities offer to entice people to move there.
Pull Factors
A factor that induces people to move to a new location.

Job Opportunities
Push Factors
A factor that induces people to leave an old residence.

Natural Disasters
Quotas
In reference to migration, laws that place maximum limits on the number of people who can migrate to a country each year.

Chinese Exclusion Act
Refugees
People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion.
Rust Belt
The northern industrial states of the United States, including Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, in which heavy industry was once the dominant economic activity. In the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, these states lost much of their economic base to economically attractive regions of the United States and to countries where labor was cheaper, leaving old machinery to rust in the moist northern climate. *Different than the ghost towns in the West.
Sun Belt
U.S. region, mostly comprised of southeastern and southwestern states, which has grown most dramatically since World War II.
Time-Contract Workers
Workers recruited for a fixed period to work in menial or unskilled positions.
Unauthorized Immigrants
People who enter a country without proper documents to do so.
Undocumented Immigration
people who enter a country without proper documents
Voluntary Migration
Permanent movement undertaken by choice.

Economic Reasons
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