Vocabulary
The concentration of people per land area
What is Population/Arithmetic Density?
People that are forced to leave their homeland in order to seek safety.
What is a refugee?
This is the largest flow of international migrants in the world.
What is Mexico to the US?
The governmentally backed process of sending immigrants back to their original residence.
What is deportation?
He developed a set of laws based on how people migrate.
Who is EG Ravenstein?
Migration against the migrants' will, such as the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
What is Forced migration?
Reasons that encourage people to migrate, such as job opportunities
What are pull factors?
A migrant worker from North Africa would most likely end up here.
What is Europe?
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?
What is a Work Visa?
Migration within a region.
What is Intraregional migration?
When a migrant chooses a particular place to live and other migrants follow them to the same destination.
What is chain migration?
This causes a migrant to stop their journey before they reach their final destination.
What is an intervening opportunity?
Countries that have more emigrants than they do immigrants have this.
What is net out migration?
Money that is sent home by migrants.
What is remittances?
Migration by choice.
What is Voluntary migration?
This law code that was established in The South after slavery led numerous black Americans to migrate to The North.
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
In the United States this document gives foreign born people nearly the same rights as an American Citizen, but they can be taken away because of a felony.
What is a Green Card?
The idea that people are less likely to move to an area farther away from their starting location.
What is Distance decay?
Migration that occurs across borders of different countries.
What is International migration?
Some countries have these programs that allow temporary or cyclic migrants to work legally.
What are Guest Worker Programs?
These are people that have been forced from their homeland and haven't been accepted into a new country as refugees.
What are asylum seekers?
This country historically has the largest surge of migration into the United States.
What is Mexico?