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asylum

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shelter and protection in one state for refugees from another state

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activity (action) space

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the space within daily activity occurs

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chain migration

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pattern of migration that develops when migrants move along and through kinship links
(migrants settling in a place & communications to others to come too)

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colonization

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physical process whereby the colonizer takes over another place, putting its own govt. in chargr and either moving its own people into the place or bringing in indentured outsiders to gain control of the people and the land

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cyclic movements

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movement- for example, nomadic migration- that has a closed route and its repeated annually or seasonally

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distane decay

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the effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction

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explorer

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a person examining a region that is unknown to them

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forced migration

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human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate

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gravity model

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a mathematical prediction of the interaction being a function of population size of the respective places and the distance between them

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guest workers

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legal immigrant who has a work visa, usually short term

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immigration laws

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laws and regulations of a state designed specifically to control immigration into that state

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immigration wave

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phenomenon whereby different patterns of chain migration build upon one another to create a swell in migration from one origin to the same destination

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