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AP hug voc.
Chapter 3 vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Brain drain | Large-scale emigration by talented people |
Chain migration | Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previosly migrated there. |
Circulation | Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis. |
counterurbanization | Net migration from urban to rural areas in more development countries. |
Emigration | Migration from a location. |
Floodplain | The area subject to flooding during a given numbers of years according to historical trends. |
Forced migration | Permanent movement compelled ussually by cultural factors. |
Guest worker | Worker who migrated to the more developed contries of the norther and Wester Europe, ususally from souther and eastern Europe or from north Africa, in search of higher paying jobs. |
Immigration | Migration to a new location. |
Internal migration | Permanent movement withing a particular coutry. |
International migration | Permanent movement from one country to another. |
Interregional migration | Permanet movement from one region of a country to another. |
Intervening | An envirormental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinder migration. |
Intraregional migration | Permanent movement within one region of a country. |
migration | Form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location. |
Migration transition | Change in the migration pattern in a society that result from industralization population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transcition. |
Mobility | All types of movements from one location to another. |
Net migration | The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration. |
Pull factor | Factor that induce people to move to a new location. |
Push factor | Factor that induce people to leave old residence. |
Quotas | In reference to migration, a law that places maximun limits on the number of people who can immigrat to a country each year. |
refugees | People who are force to migrat from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of theri race, religion, nationality, membership , social and political. |
Undocumented immigrants | People who enter a country without proper documentation |
Voluntary migration | Permanent movement undertaken by choice. |