Migration
Theories, Equations & Models
Models and Policies
Push, Pull, and Migrate
Things you should know
100

The most common form of migration, it is when people migrate from the country to the city. 

What is rural to urban migration?

100

A model that illustrates how a country's population growth rate changes as it develops economically. We can use this model to determine what stage of development a country is in.

What is the Demographic Transition Model (DTM)?

100

Limiting the number of children allowed per family through legal measures is an example of this type of policy.

What is an antinatalist policy?

100

Refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced persons all fall under this type of migration because they feel they HAVE to migrate to survive. 

What is forced/involuntary? 

100

A person who has left their country and is seeking protection from persecution in another country, but who hasn't yet been legally recognized.

What is an asylum seeker?

200

The movement of people in a series of stages, often from rural to urban areas

What is Step Migration?

200

In this stage of the DTM, there is a moderate growth rate due to declining birth rates while death rates remain low or continue to fall.

What is stage 3?

200

Offering generous parental leave and childcare subsidies to encourage couples to have more children is an example of this type of policy.

What is a pronatalist policy?

200

 the Rustbelt to the Sunbelt is an example of this type of migration when people choose to migrate.

What is voluntary?

200

A person(s) who has been forced to leave their country due to war, violence, or persecution and is recognized by the international community as needing to migrate.

What are refugees?

300

A potential alternative that can cause a person to settle in a different location than their original destination while migrating

What is an intervening opportunity?

300

This historical development, which involves a society advancing to become mechanized and able to mass produce, is the primary reason that agricultural - stage 2 - nations advance and reach stage three with stabilizing populations. 

Industrialization

300

This country famously implemented a program that limited most families to one child each.

What is China?

300

What is causing this unusual shape to this pyramid?

What is a Guest Worker program

300

Someone who has been forced to leave their home but remains within their country's borders.

What is an internally displaced person (IDP)?

400

The difference between the number of people entering a country (immigration) and the number of people leaving (emigration) the same country.

What is Net Migration?

400

This is the difference between birth rates and death rates and is highest in a stage 2 country.  

What is rate of natural increase (RNI)?


400

The following are examples of what?

  • (1) Most Migrants Go Only Short Distances. ...
  • (2) Migration Goes by Steps (Step-by-Step) ...
  • (3) Long-Distance Migrants Prefer to Go to Big Cities. ...
  • (4) Migration Flows Produce Counter-Flows. ...
  • (5) People from Urban Areas Migrate Less than Rural People.

What are Ravenstein's Laws of Migration?

400

The Potato Famine in Ireland that led to mass starvation and drove many people deciding to leave the country.  An example of this type of factor.

What is a push factor?

400

This area of the world is expected to experience the most rapid population growth in coming decades.

What is Sub-Saharan Africa?

500

The Irish migration to the United States in the mid 1800s is an example of this...it involves people immigrating to a country to follow family or a community to a destination.

What is chain migration?

500

The industrial revolution contributes to this theory being wrong (at least in the short term)...

What is Malthusian Theory?

500

A concept that predicts the level of migration between two locations based on the idea that larger populations and closer proximity will attract more migration, similar to how gravity pulls objects closer together.

What is the gravity model of migration?

500

When a country loses a significant portion of its skilled and educated people it is known as...

Brain Drain 

500

The former "Bracero Program" in the United States allowed Mexican workers to temporarily work in the US, primarily in agriculture, to address labor shortages during World War II. is an example of this.

What are guest workers?