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Chap 5 Flashcards

1
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Permanent or semi-permanent relocation of people from one place to another

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Migration

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2
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People choose to relocate

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Voluntary Migration

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3
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Things that make people leave a country

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Push Factors

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4
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Things that bring people into a country

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Pull Factors

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5
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The most common reason for migration. Ex: Unemployment, More work

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Economic Factors

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People often migrate when they experience discrimination and persecution because of their ethnicity, race, gender, or religion

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Social Factors

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People who oppose the policies of a government because they face discrimination, arrest, and persecution

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Political Factors

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To escape harm from natural disasters, drought, and other unfavorable environmental conditions

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Environmental Factors

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Gender imbalance, the population being too young, overpopulation

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Demographic Factors

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10
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Countries in stages 2 or 3 experience rapid population growth and overcrowding

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Migration Transition Model

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11
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Barriers that make reaching a destination more difficult

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Intervening Obstacles

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12
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Opportunities that disrupt their original migration plan (Ex - finding a job along the way)

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Intervening Opportunities

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13
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Someone who observed laws and patterns of migration (Ex - short distances, urban areas, multiple steps, rural to urban, counter migration, youth, gender patterns)

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Ravenstein’s law of migration

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14
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The farther apart the two places are the less likely people will migrate there

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Distance Decay

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15
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The size and distance between two places will influence the number of interactions that include migration, travel, and economic activity

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Gravity Model of Migration

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16
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Migrants reach their final destination through a series of small moves

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Step Migration

17
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Moving from suburbs to cities

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Rural-urban Migration

18
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Each migration flow produces a movement in the opposite direction

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Counter Migration

19
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A situation where migrants return back to their old country, by their own will, after a long period abroad

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Return Migration

20
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Migrants have no choice but to move

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Forced Migration

21
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When migrants to different parts of the same country

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Internally Displaced People

22
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People who cross international borders due to war or safety issues.

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Refugees

23
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Protection granted by one country to an immigrant from another country who has a legitimate fear of harm or death if he or she or they goes back to that country

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Asylum

24
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Movement that occurs within a country

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Internal Migration

25
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When people move from one country to another country

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Transnational Migration

26
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Explains patterns of migration and helps migrants transition into receiving countries

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Chain Migration

27
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Transnational migrator who moved due to work in the area locally. Mainly low/poor jobs.

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Guest Worker

28
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Process of herders moving their animals to different pastures during different seasons

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Transhumance

29
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Regulates the number of workers who can enter each country to work in a specific industry for a defined amount of time

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Guest-Worker Policies

30
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Policies that allow migrants to sponsor family members who migrate to the country

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Family Re-unification

31
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Strong dislike of people from another culture

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Xenophobia

32
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Money sent to family and friends in the country they left

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Remittance

33
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Migration out of a country is made up of high skilled people

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Brain Drain

34
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Neighborhoods filled with people primarily of one ethnic group (Ex: China Town, Little Italy)

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Ethnic Enclaves

35
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Millions of Americans migrated from the south to cities in the rest of the country

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The Great Migration

36
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People moving to 15 southern states and southwestern states from the north following world war 2

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Sun Belt Migration

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