KBAT Chapter 3 Flashcards
(29 cards)
Remittance
Money sent back (think about that book you read in 6th)
Cyclic Movements
Movement w/ closed route and is repeated annually/ seasonally.
Periodic Movement
Temporary or recurrent movement (think college)
Migration
A change in where you lived
Activity spaces
A place where daily activity occurs
Nomadism
Movement among a definite set of place
Migrant labor
Common type of periodic movement- search for employment
Transhumance
Seasonal/ periodic movement
Pastoralists and their livestock move between highland & lowland plains
Military Service
Another type of periodic movement…. Military personnel and their families moved to new locations
International migration
Human movement involving international borders
Immigration
Person migrating to a particular country/ era
Internal migration
Human movement w/in a nation/state
Think Oregon trail
Forced migration
Human migration where they have no choice (Ex: Catherine the Great and Russian-German migration)
Voluntary migration
Movement in response to perceived opportunities
Laws of Migration
Predicts flow of migrants
Gravity Model
Mathematical prediction of interaction of places
Push factors
Negative conditions & perceptions that induce to leave a location
Pull factors
Positive conditions & perceptions to attract people to a location
Distance decay
Effects of distance on interaction- the greater the distance to less interaction
Step migration
Migration in stages to destinations
Ex: A farm- a village- a town- city
Intervening opportunity
Presence of nearer opportunity that diminishes attractiveness for father sites
Deportation
Gov’t send a migrant back to their home country
Kinship links
Type of push/ pull factors that influence a migrants decision to go where family/ friends found success
Chain migration
Pattern of migration where move through kinship links
