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Migration Unit 2

AP HUG

Term	Definition
Spatial Mobility	All forms of geographical movement, including people's everyday commuting and travels.
Social (upward) mobility	Change in social hierarchy
migration	Long–term relocation of individual, families, or communities from one place to another
migrant	a person who migrates or moves
non–migrants	People who do not move
Origin	A person's location before migration
destination	The place the migrant is going
emigration/out–migration	the act of leaving a place
immigration/in–migration	the act of arriving to a new place
immigrants	People who arrive at their destination country
migration stream	the flow of all migrants from an origin to a destination
counterstream	the flow of all migrants in the direction opposite a particular migration stream
Net migration	The difference between the number of in–migrants and out–migrants
net migration rate (NMR)	shows the impact of migration on population change. Divide the country's net migration by total population, then multiplying by 1000
Migration age progile	The relationship between the odds of migration and age across different countries
Brain Drain	when a country or place loses young, more educated, and skilled people through migration
Brain Gain	when a country or a place gains young, more educated, and skilled people through migration
Push–pull theory of migration	Theory asserting that two contrasting sets of factors are at work in migration decisions
push factors	reasons why people want to leave
pull factors	Reasons why people want to come into a place
Intervening obstacles	The complications that potential migrants will need to overcome to reach their destination
intervening opportunity	A nearby attractive locale where migrants may decide to settle instead of going to the intended destination farther away.
social networks	People's friends and relatives
Ravenstein's Laws	11 major "laws" migration tends to follow. Include: most migration is for economic reasons, mostly rural to urban.
Voluntary Migration	Migration that is done willingly
international migration	When moves are made across international borders
Guest worker	A person with temporary permission to work in another country
Transnational migration	When migrants move back and forth between their home countries and those to which they have migrated
internal migration/ interregional migration	When people move within the borders of a country
Great Migration	The 20th century movement of 6 million African Americans from the rural southern states to the cities of the midwestern and northeastern states
Rural to Urban migration	When people move from the countryside to cities
Residential mobility	moves that occur within a metropolitan area
Step migration	Migration carried out in stages, usually from nearby to bigger and more distant places
chain migration	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
return migration	migrants going back, or returning, to their previous place of residence or origin
Seasonal migration	migration based on the time of year
transhumanance	a phenomenon where herders and their livestock move seasonally between their summer and winter pastures
Mobility transition model	Connects migration to the DTM. 1) Premodern societies, 2) early transitional societies, 3) late transitional societies, 4) advanced societies
circulation	short–term and cyclical movement that occurs repeatedly on a regular basis
forced migration	migration caused by forces out of one's control: disasters, social conflicts, developmental projects, slavery.
Refugees	people who leave their country because of persecution based on race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, or political opinion
Internally displaced person (IDP)	Someone who remains within his or her country's borders despite being persecuted by their home country
Ethnic cleansing	the forced removal of one ethnic group by another ethnic group to create an ethnically consistent territory
repatriation	when refugees or displaced persons return to their home country
Diaspora	Involuntary mass dispersions of a population from its home territory
Rohingya in Myanmar	An example of ethnic cleansing
Syrian civil war	An example of an armed conflict creating a large refugee population
Atlantic Slave Trade	An example of forced migration
Mongolian herders	example of transhumance
Snowbirds	An example of seasonal migration
New Great Migration	an example of return migration (Black Americans currently moving to the South from the North)
Moving to be with your family	An example of chain migration
Great Migration	An example of rural–to–urban migration\nAND internal migration
Bracero program	example of guest workers
Pastel's sister–in–law going back to Taiwan for 6 months to have a second child, before returning to the USA	example of Transnational migration
Hurricane Katrina	an example of a USA event that produced internally displaced people
Many Chinese immigrants go to New Zealand, settle there temporarily, then move to their final destination of Australia	An example of step migration
Paying $8,000 per person to be smuggled out of Syria on a boat	an example of a economic intervening obstacle
Carole was on her way to northern Europe but found a job styling hair in France	an example of an economic intervening opportunity

Created by: jpastel

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