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Chapter 3
Term | Definition |
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Cyclic Movement | regular journey that begins at a home bas and returns to the exact same place |
Activity Spaces | places within the rounds of daily activity |
Snowbirds | retired or semiretired people who live in old states and Canada for most of the year and move to warm states for the winter |
Pastoralism | a type of cyclic movement when herders move livestock through the year to continually find fresh water and green pastures |
Transhumance | migration pattern in which livestock are led to highlands during summer months and lowlands during the winter months to graze |
Relocation Diffusion | spread of an idea or innovation from its hearth by the act of people moving and taking the idea or innovation with them |
International Migration | purposeful movement of people from one country to another with a degree of permanence or intent to stay |
Emigrants | a person who permanently moves out of their home country |
Immigrants | a person who permanently moves into a new country |
Net Migration | difference between the number of immigrants and the number of emigrants |
Refugees | migrants who flee their country because of political persecution and seek asylum in another country |
Remittances | money that migrants send back to families and friends in their home countries, often in cash, forming an important part of the economy in many lower income countries |
Reverse Remittances | money flowing from home countries to migrants in their destination countries |
Guest Workers | migrants who are invited into a country to work temporarily, are granted visa status, and are expected to return to their home country at the end of the visa |
Islands of Development | cities in developing regions where foreign investment is concentrated and to which rural migrants are drawn |
Internal Migration | purposeful movement of people within a country from one location to another with a degree of permanence or intent to stay |
Diaspora | dispersal of a people from their homeland to a new place, either voluntarily or by force |
Assimilation | when a minority group loses distinct cultural traits, such as dress, food, or speech, and adopts the customs of the dominant culture |
Human Trafficking | a form of forced migration where people are involuntary sold and traded for manual labor or as workers in the commercial sex trade |
Gulags | forced labor or prison labor camps |
Distance Decay | decreasing likelihood of diffusion with greater distance from the hearth |
Gravity Model | urban geography model that mathematically predicts the degree of interaction and probability of migration between two places |
Push Factors | circumstances a migrant considers when deciding to leave the home country |
Pull Factors | circumstances a migrant considers when deciding where to migrate |
Intervening Opportunity | presence of an opportunity near a migrant's current location that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of migrating to a site farther away |
Unauthorized Migrants | migrants who do not have legal permission to stay in the country where they live |
Coyotes | a nickname for people who help smuggle unauthorized migrants across the border for a fee |
Chain Migration | permanent movement from one place to another that follows kinship links |
Repatriation | a refugee or group of refugees returning to their home country, usually with the assistance of the government or a non governmental organization |
Asylum Seekers | migrant who claims the right to protection as a refugee in a country other than their home country |
Internally Displaced Persons | people who have been displaced within their home country and do not cross international boundaries |
Bracero Program | laws and agreement passed in the U.S. and Mexico in 1942 to encourage Mexicans to migrate to the United States to work in agriculture |