Vocabulary
Asylum
what is the protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee.
refugees
what is who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
what are push factors
Push factors may include conflict, drought, famine, or extreme religious activity. Poor economic activity and lack of job opportunities are also strong push factors for migration.
Bracero Program
a 1940's era U.S. government program designed to encourage Mexicans to come to the US to work as contract laborers.
what is the difference between emigration and immigration
emigration is going out of the place immigration is going into the place
immigration
what is the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.
activity spaces
The notion of activity space has been examined and applied to address various issues in geography, transportation research, social epidemiology, and environmental psychology.
what are pull factors
Pull factors are those factors in the destination country that attract the individual or group to leave their home.
Nomadism
a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place,usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the food supply.
what is periodic movement
it is when someone goes away for a long time but eventually comes back
guest workers
what is a person with temporary permission to work in another country, especially in Germany.
chain migration
Chain migration is a term used by scholars to refer to the social process by which migrants from a particular town follow others from that town to a particular destination.
describe the gravity model
what is a model used to estimate the amount of interaction between two cities. It is based on Newton's universal law of gravitation, which measured the attraction of two objects based off their mass and distance.
international migration
human movement involving movement across international boundaries.
examples of periodic movement
going to college, being a guest worker and going to a different country but coming back
step migration
what is a person who is forced to migrate from his or her home country and cannot return for fear of persecution due to his or her race, religion, political opinion, nationality, or group.
human trafficking
the action or practice of illegally transporting people from one country or area to another, typically for the purposes of forced labour or commercial sexual exploitation.
distance decay
Distance decay is a geographical term which describes the effect of distance on cultural or spatial interactions. The distance decay effect states that the interaction between two locales declines as the distance between them increases.
chain migration
migration that devolopes migrants move along through kinship links
what is asylum
the protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee.
gravity model
The Gravity Model is a model used to estimate the amount of interaction between two cities. It is based on Newton's universal law of gravitation, which measured the attraction of two objects based off their mass and distance.
reparation
the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged.
forced migration
when migrants are forced out of their home/homeland because of war.
repatriation
a refugee or group of refugees returning to their home country.
what is genocide
the attempt or action of taking out one group/race of people