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The degree of equality between men and women with respect to access to and control over both physical and social resources in the family community or society at large

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Women status

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The increased autonomy of women to make choices and shape their lives

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Women’s Empowerment

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States in the coastal areas and the South and Southwest United States

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Sunbelt

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A person who migrates or moves

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Migrant

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Increase in food production resulting from the use of new farming methods

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Boserup affect

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Migrants going back, or returning, to their previus place of residence or origin.

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Return migration

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Designed to curtail population growth by reducing fertility rates

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Anti-natalist Policies

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Culturally specific notions of what it means to be a man or woman

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Gender roles

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A very useful graphic device for comparing age and sex structure

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Population pyramid

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A nearby attractive locale where migrants may decide to settle instead of going to the intended destination farther away

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Intervening oppurtinuity

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The pattern in which humans are spread out on Earth’s Surface

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Population distribution

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A branch of medicine that studies the distribution, determinants, and control of diseases and other health conditions, such as tobacco use and sedentary lifestyle

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Epidemiology

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The attributes of other places tha make them appealing to potential migrants

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Pull factors

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The relatively stable relationship between the odds of migration and age across different countries

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Migration age profile

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Theory asserting that two contrasting sets of factors are at work in migration decisions

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Push and pull theory of migration

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The average number of children born per woman during her reporductive lifetime, considered to be from 15-49 years old.

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Total Fertility Rate (TFR)

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A CBR between 20-30 births per 1000 people

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Transitional Birth Rate

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A phenomenon in which a culture demonstrates a marked preference for males

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Androcentrism

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The average number of children needed to replace both parents and stabilize population over time. Approximately 2.1.

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Replacement Level Fertility

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The makeup of the population by age and sex as well as by ethnic, racial, income and educational background

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Population Composition

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The difference between the number of births and deaths in a given year, when expressed as a percentage of total population

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Rate of natrual increase (RNI)

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When migrants move back and forth between their home countries and those to which they have migrated

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Transnational Migration

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The statistical study of population and its change

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Demography

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The average number of people per unit of land area

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Population density

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Involuntary mass dispersions of a population from its home territory
Diaspora
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A tool for calculating the doubling time of a population by dividing 70 by a country's rate of natural increase (RNI)
Rule of 70
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A population of a country or place that ages as the number or proportion of its elderly people increases
Aging population
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occurs when the human population exceeds the food supply
Overpopulation
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The process by which some people's migration to a new place leads their family members, friends and others to move to the same place
Chain migration
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A phenomenon where herders and their livestock move seasonally between their summer and winter pastures
Transhumance
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States located in the northern and midestern parts of the United States
Snowbelt
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When moves are made across National Borders
International Migration
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Mobility that implies a change in social hierarchy
Social (upward) Mobility
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Someone who remain within his or her country;s borders despite being persecuted by their home country
Internally Displaced Persons (IDP)
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People born after the turn of the twenty-first century
Gen Z
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Factors that cause people to be dissatisfied with their present locales and want to move somewhere else
Push Factors
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Migration that is done willingly
Voluntary migration
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When a country has the same number of births and deaths in a given year, its RNI is zero
Zero population growth
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Ethnic homeland in the US South
Black belt
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The forced removal of one ethnic group by another ethnic group to create an ethnically consistant territory
Ethnic cleansing
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The number of dependents in a population, that each 100 working age people (ages 15-64) must support
Dependency ratio
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The method for calculating total population of a country or place based on natural increase and migration over a period of time (usually a year)
Demographic equation
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Moves that occur within a metropolitian area
Resedential mobility
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People who today subscribe to the Malthusian view of population
Neo-Malthusians
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A disease that causes deterioration over time, such as canver, heart disease, and stroke
Degenerative diseases
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Permanent movement within one region of a country, such as moving from the suburbs to the big city.
interreigonal migration
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People who leave their country because of persecution based on race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, or political opinion
Refugees
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The portion of Earth's surface with permanent human settlment
Ecumene
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When people move within the borders of a country
Internal (Interregional) Migration
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People's friends and relatives
Social networks
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People who disagree with the Malthusian view of population and resources
Anti-Malthusians
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When refugees or displaced persons return to their home country
Repatriated
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The balancing point given the distribution of population
Mean Center of Population
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The long-term or permanent relocation of individuals, families or entire communities from one place to another
Migration
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Deaths of children under five years of age
Child morality
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The act of a migrant arriving at their destination city
Immigration
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The age that divides a poplaution into two halves so that one half is younger than this age and the other half is older
median age
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Short-term and cyclical movement that occurs repeatedly on a regular basis
Circulation
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Seeks to explain how changes in health serices and living standards affect patterns of disease
Epdemiological Transition Theory
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A term derived from the name Thomas Robert Malthus, an English economist and cleric, to mean either "of or relating to Malthus's theory" or "a follower of Malthus"
Malthusian
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The complications that potential migrants will need to overcome to reach their destinations
Intervenning obstables
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The average number of people per unit of land area (usually per square mile or kilometer)
Arithmetic (Crude) Density
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The number of deaths per year per 1000 people
Crude Death Rate (CDR) or Mortality Rate
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Refers to the breakdown of a population into different age groups or cohorts
Age structure
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All forms of geographical movement, including people's everyday commuting and travel
Spatial mobility
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People born between 1965-1980 and are now in their prime working years
Generation X
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The difference between the number of immigrants and emmigrants
Net migration
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The state of being comfortable, healthy or happy
Human well being
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The twentieth-century movement of 6 million African Americans from rural southern states to the cities of the midwestern and northeastern states
The great migration
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