Chapter 3 Flashcards
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What is migration?
movement with permanent relocation across significant distances
What are the three types of movement?
cyclic movement, periodic movement, migration
What is cyclic movement?
shorter periods of time away from home
What are examples of cyclic movement?
commuting, seasonal movement, nomadism
What is an activity space?
a place that you regularly go
What is periodic movement?
a longer period of time away from home base
What are examples of periodic movement?
migrant labor, military service, transhumance
What is transhumance?
a system of farming in which ranchers move livestock according to seasonal availability
What is international migration?
movement across country borders
What is internal migration?
movement within a country’s borders
What is emigration?
to leave ones place of residence or country to live elsewhere
What is circular migration?
a type of temporary migration associated with agricultural work
What is voluntary migration?
the migrant makes the decision to move and weighs several push and pull factors
What is distance decay?
weighs into the decision to migrate leading to many migrants to move less far than they originally contemplate
Name and describe two types of voluntary migration
- Step migration- when a migrant follows a path of a series of steps or stages toward a final destination
- Chain Migration- a migrant communicates to friends and family at home encouraging further migration along the same path along kinship links
What is an intervening opportunity?
at one of the steps along the path pull factors encourage the migrant to settle
What are the types of push and pull factors?
economic, political, armed conflict and civil war, environmental, culture, technology
What is forced migration?
involuntary migration
What are guest workers and what do they have?
- migrants whom a country allows in to fill a labor need, assuming the workers will go home
- have short term work visas
- send remittances to home country
What is a refugee?
a person who flees across an international boundary because of a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a social group or political opinion
List and describe the regions of dislocation.
- Subsaharan Africa- poverty and disease with humanitarian crises
- North Africa and Southwest Asia-Afghanistan, Iraq
- Southeast Asia- internal refugees in myanmar
- South Asia- 3rd ranking b/c of Pakistan and civil war in Syria
- Europe- 1990s- Collapse of Yugoslavia
What does it mean to seek asylum?
protection in one state from another state
What does the UN aid with?
Repatriation
What are the barriers to migration?
- physical boundaries in the past, political boundaries in the present
- technology allowed us to overcome
