Vocabulary
What is Migration?
Why do people migrate?
Where do people migrate?
How do governments effect migration?
100
movement- for example, nomadic migration- that has closed route and is repeated annually or seasonally
What is cyclic movements?
100
Migration that occurs in stages.
What is Step migration?
100
People that migrate and leave an area because of environmental or economic reasons.
What is a refugee?
100
migration between close countries for a short term economic opportunity and to reconnect accross borders with their families.
What is regional migration?
100
The governmentally backed process of sending immigrants back to their original residence.
What is deportation?
200
a mathematical prediction to the interaction of places, the interation between being a function of population size of the respective places and the distance between them
What is the gravity model?
200
Migration agains the migrants' will, such as the use of the concentration camps in world war II.
What is Forced migration?
200
reasons that people want to migrate such as job opportunities
What are pull factors?
200
a migration stream with enormous consequences is the flow of jewish immigrants to israel.
What is the reconnection of cultural groups?
200
A makeshift town for immigrants, common in poor areas outside of cities such as Rio. These areas are commonly segmented off by the local government.
What is a shantytown?
300
People tha played a major role in the early mapping of the world.
What are explorers?
300
Migration within a region.
What is interregional migration?
300
When a migrant chooses a destination and communicates with family and friends at home, creating a positive perception of the place for them.
What is chain migration?
300
The reason that many people migrated from germany to the west during the 1940s and 50s.
What is conflict and war?
300
Sometimes governmentally backed persecution and killing of specific ethnic groups.
What is genocide?
400
a seasonal periodic movement of pastoralists and their livestock between highland and lowland pastures
What is transhumance?
400
Migration by choice.
What is Voluntary migration?
400
A reason a migrant is often pulled to places where family and friends have already found success
What are kinship links?
400
workers that fill the void left by those who died during WWII, to leave afterwards
What are guest workers?
400
governmental immigration policy that restricts immigration on the basis of criminal records and other background issues.
What is selective immigration?
500
The idea that people are less likely to move to an area farther away from their starting location.
What is Distance decay?
500
Migration that occurs across borders of countries all over the world.
What is Global scale migration?
500
Things and events like volcanoe eruptions, floods, and potato fungus infections.
What are evironmental events?
500
Places within a region or country where most foreign investment goes, where there are more paying jobs, and infrastructure is concentrated.
What are islands of development?
500
Governmental regulations on immigration and immigration policy.
What are immigration quotas?
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