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vocab movement words
Term | Definition |
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Migration | Movement of people to a new area or country in order to find work or better living conditions. |
Transportation | The action of transporting someone or something or the process of being transported. |
Pull Factors | The lure of another country, region, organization, or religion. |
Push Factors | A factor that leaves one with no choice but to leave one's current home (especially parental home), country, region, organization, or religion |
Space Time Compression | Space time compression refers to the set of processes that cause the relative distances between places (i.e., as measured in terms of travel time or cost) to contract, effectively making such places grow “closer.” |
Immigration | The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. |
Technology | The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, esp. in industry. |