Miscellaneous
Money made by migrants that is sent home to support the family
What are remittances
Factors that induce people to leave their present location
What is a push factor
This type of movement begins in one spot and in the end returns to it. This usually happens in a short time frame
What is cyclic movement
A person who has regular movement between 2 or more countries
What is transnational migration
The largest number of refugees come from
Syria
How do you find net migration
Immigrants - emigrants
Factors that induce people to move to a new location
What is a pull factor
A permanent move to a new location is know as
What is migration
Movement that takes place in a nation/state
ex. Westward expansion
What is internal migration
A person who has been forced to migrate across international borders to avoid a threat to his/her life
What is a refugee
This model estimates the amount of interaction two places have based on population and distance
What is the Gravity Model
The name for a feature that hinders migration
What is an intervening obstacle
Emigration is moving ____ a country and immigration is moving ____ a country
Moving livestock place to place in a seasonal cycle
What is transhumance migration
A person who is fleeing an area for fear of their life, but they haven't migrated across international borders
What is an internally displaced person (IDP)
Interregional migration is migration ____ region(s) and intraregional migration is migration _______ region(s)
Between, within a
A feature that makes a migrant voluntarily change their mind about the migration
Intervening opportunity
Type of movement that involves a long period of time away from home, yet still returning
What is periodic movement
The migration of people to a location because they have connections to someone who had previously migrated there
What is chain migration
A person who has migrated to another country in hope to be seen as a refugee and get legal protection
What is an asylum seeker
Laws that describe how and what happens when migrants move
What are Ravenstein's Laws of Migration
The four major types of push/pull factors
Economic, cultural, environmental, political
This type of movement is mostly farmers moving from the countryside to cities in search of jobs
What is rural to urban
Migration to a distant place that occurs in stages
What is step migration
The largest and most devastating example of forced migration in history
What is the Atlantic slave trade