chapter 03: migration

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1. activity the space within which daily activity occurs 16. internally person who has been displaced within their
spaces displaced own countries and does not cross
person international borders as they flee
2. asylum shelter and protection in one state for refugees
from another state 17. internal human movement within a nation-state, such
migration as ongoing westward and southward
3. chain pattern of migration that develops when
movements in the united states
migration migrants move along and through kinship links
(i.e. one migrant settles in a place and then 18. international human movement involving movement
writes, calls, or communicates through others migration across international boundaries
to describe this place to family and friends
19. intervening the presence of a nearer opportunity that
who in turn then migrate there)
opportunity greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites
4. colonization physical process whereby the colonizer takes farther away
over another place, putting its own
20. island of place built up by a government or
government in charge and either moving its
development corporation to attract foreign investment and
own people into the place or bringing in
which has relatively high concentrations of
indentured outsiders to gain control of the
paying jobs and infrastructure
people and the land
21. kinship links types of push factors or pull factors that
5. cyclic movement—for example, nomadic migration—
influence a migrant's decision to go where
movement that has a closed route and is repeated
family or friends have already found success
annually or seasonally
22. laws of developed by british demographer ernst
6. deportation the act of a government sending a migrant out
migration ravenstein, five laws that predict the flow of
of its country and back to the migrant's home
migrants
country
23. migration a change in residence intended to be
7. distance the effects of distance on interaction, generally
permanent
decay the greater the distance the less interaction
24. nomadism movement among a definite set of places—
8. emigration the act of a person leaving a country or area
often cyclic movement
to settle elsewhere
25. periodic movement—for example, college attendence
9. forced human migration flows in which the movers
movement or military service—that involves temporary,
migration have no choice but to relocate
recurrent relocation
10. gravity a mathematical prediction of the interaction of
26. pull factors positive conditions and perceptions that
model places, the interaction being a function of
effectively attract people to new locales from
population size of the respective places and
other areas
the distance between them
27. push factors negative conditions and perceptions that
11. guest legal immigrant who has a work visa, usually
induce people to leave their abode and
worker short term
migrate to a new locale
12. human a form of forced migration in which organized
28. refugee person who has fled their country because of
trafficking criminal elements move people illegally from
political persecution and seeks asylum in
one place to another, typically either to work
another country
as involuntary laborers or to participate in the
commercial sex trade 29. regional interactions occurring within a region, in a
scale regional setting
13. immigration the act of a person migrating into a new
country or area 30. repartriation a refugee or group of refugees returning to
their home country, usually with the
14. immigration laws and regulations of a state designed
assistance of government or a non-
laws specifically to control immigration into that
governmental organization
state
31. russification the soviet policy to promote the diffusion of
15. immigration phenomenon whereby different patterns of
russian culture throughout the republics of
waves chain migration build upon one another to
the former soviet union
create a swell in migration from one origin to
the same destination
32. selective process to control immigration in which individuals with certain backgrounds (i.e. criminal records, poor health, or
immigration subversive activities) are barred from immigrating
33. step migration migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village and later to town
and city
34. transhumance a seasonal periodic movement of pastoralists and their livestock between highland and lowland pastures
35. voluntary movement in which people relocate in response to perceived opportunity, not because they are forced to move
migration