2.10 Causes Of Migration

Question 1

Spatial mobility

Answer 1

All forms of geographical movement including travel and commuting

Question 2

Social (upward) mobility

Answer 2

Essentially climbing the social ladder like being promoted

Question 3

Migration

Answer 3

Long term MOVE of an individual from one place to another

Question 4

Migrant

Answer 4

A person who migrants or moves

Question 5

Non-migrant

Answer 5

A person who stays or doesn’t move

Question 6

Origin

Answer 6

Persons location before migration

Question 7

Distinction

Answer 7

Where a person is going

Question 8

Emigration

Answer 8

ACT of a migrant leaving their origin

Question 9

Emigrants

Answer 9

People who leave their origin

Question 10

Immigration

Answer 10

ACT of a migrant arriving at their destination

Question 11

Immigrants

Answer 11

People who arrive at their destination

Question 12

Migration stream

Answer 12

Flow of migrants from an origin to a destination

Question 13

Counterstream

Answer 13

Opposite flow. Migrants from a destination to an origin

Question 14

Net-migration

Answer 14

The difference between in-migrants and out-migrants

Question 15

Net migration rate (NMR)
Provide equation

Answer 15

of migrants per 1,000 people

Net migration
——————— • 1,000
Population

Question 16

Migration age profile

Answer 16

Relationship between the odds of migration and age

Question 17

Brain drain

Answer 17

Phenomenon where a country loses smart people because of migration

Question 18

Brain gain

Answer 18

Phenomenon wheee a country GAINS smart people because of migration. Likely in developed country’s

Question 19

Push-pull theory:

Answer 19

Two contrasting sets of factors that influence migration

Question 20

Push factors

Answer 20

Factors that cause dissatisfied
People who want to move (negative)

Question 21

Pull factors

Answer 21

Attributes of other places that influence moving there (positives)

Question 22

Intervening obstacles

Answer 22

Challenges that potential migrants will have to overcome in order to reach a destination

Question 23

Social networks

Answer 23

Friends and family

Question 24

Intervening opportunity

Answer 24

A new attractive destination instead of a farther away original destination

Question 25

List push factors

Answer 25

Disease
Persecution of religions, races, genders, and political groups
War
Natural disasters

Question 26

List pull factors

Answer 26

Economic opportunities
Climate and physical attributes
Higher standards of living

Question 27

Lost intervening obstacles

Answer 27

Long Distances
Laws that restrict migration