People forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution or natural disaster.
What is a refugee?
A sneaky way to enslave someone without calling it "slavery".
Indentured Labor
Also known as involuntary migration and slavery.
What is Forced Migration.
What is a region?
A region is an area of land that has common features.
Where a nation of people moves to______________.
Migration Field
Also known as cyclical migration...when people migrate by going back and forth, usually for agricultural work.
Seasonal Migration
True or False...
A region can be defined by natural or artificial features.
True
Something that encourages people to leave a country or place.
What is pull factor?
A large group of people with a similar heritage or homeland who have since moved out to places all over the world.
Diaspora
When a person or people go back to stay in their country of origin.
Return Migration
What are the three types of regions?
Formal, Functional & Perceptual
Things that make it difficult to move.
What are barriers?
When 1 person migrates then others join by migrating into their existing network.
Chain Migration
When people move within the same country.
Internal Migration.
What is "Place" in Geography?
The physical and human characteristics of a location.
A mixture of ethnic groups formed during the European Colonial era. (European/Black)
What is creole?
Pull and Push Factor are examples of _____________ migration?
Economic Migration.
Rural--->Regional City--->Big City--->International
The above is an example of___________________.
Step Migration
Give an example of physical characteristics of place.
Give an example of human characteristics of place.
Example: landforms, bodies of water, soil, animals
Example: human ideas and actions.
Physical, financial, legal, and emotional barriers.
What is a factor that affects movement?