Ersnt Ravenstein's theory regarding migration describes how the number of migrants to a destination decreases as the distance they must travel increases.
What is the gravity model?
100
This geographic region contains some of the world's long lasting and most deeply entrenched refugee problems.
What is North Africa or South West Asia?
100
Movement across country borders.
What is international migration?
100
When migrants move along and through kinship links they create this.
What is chain migration?
200
This type of movement involves a journey that begins at a home base and brings the person back.
What is cyclic movement?
200
These are conditions and perceptions that help the migrant to decide to leave.
What are push factors?
200
With up to six million refugees in the early 1990's, this country required the UN to break up up the genocide?
What is Yugoslavia?
200
Permanent movement within a countries border?
What is internal migration?
200
A series of chain migrations lead to this concept.
What are immigration waves?
300
This type of cyclic movement is a matter of survival, culture and tradition.
What is nomadism?
300
Prospective migrants are likely to have more complete perceptions of nearer places than farther ones.
What is distance decay?
300
With 8 million refugees and millions more as IDP's, this land mass has the most significant problems with refugees.
What is Subsaharan Africa?
300
This involves the imposition of an authority or power.
What is forced migration?
300
This migration ended in European nations taking over large amounts of space.
What is colonization?
400
A periodic type of movement that involves workers going to farms or factories for an extended time is referred to by this term.
What is migrant labour?
400
These are circumstances that draw the migrant to certain locales instead of others.
What are pull factors?
400
The largest refugee camp in this region is formed mainly with people who live in a country that is still being ruled by a military junta.
What is Burma?
400
This occurs after a migrant weighs the options and chooses to move.
What is voluntary migration?
400
Long-distance movement in pursuit of resources or exploration.
What is Global Scale?
500
A form of periodic movement that occurs seasonal transitions in a pastoral setting.
What is transhumance?
500
This happens when migrants get caught up in other opportunities when they are on their way to a destination farther away.
What is an intervening opportunity?
500
This process involves background checks, financial security and, often, certain skills to ensure progression.
What is selective immigration?
500
The greatest flow of migration in human history has occurred between __________ and ___________.