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Chapter 3 Vocabulary

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Cyclic movement   Regular journey that begins at a home base and returns to the exact same place. A form of movement.  
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Activity spaces   Places within the rounds of daily activity.  
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Snowbirds   Retired or semiretired people who live in cold states and Canada for most of the year and move to warm states for the winter.  
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Pastoralism   a type of cyclic movement when herders move livestock through the year to continually find fresh water and green pastures.  
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Transhumance   Migration pattern in which livestock are led to highlands during summer months and lowlands during winter months to graze.  
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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.  
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International migration   Purposeful movement of people from one country to another with a degree of permanence or intent to stay.  
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Emigrants   A person who permanently moves out of their home country.  
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Immigrants   A person who permanently moves into a new country.  
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Net migration   Difference between the number of immigrants (those coming into a country) and the number of emigrants (those leaving a country).  
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Refugees   Migrants who flee their country because of political persecution and seek asylum in another country.  
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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 (peripheral) countries.  
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Reverse remittances   Money flowing from home countries to migrants in their destination countries.  
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Guest workers   Migrants who are invited into a country to work temporarily, are granted work visa status, and are expected to return to their home country at the end of the visa.  
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Islands of development   Cities in developing regions where foreign investment is concentrated and to which rural migrants are drawn.  
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Internal migration   Purposeful movement of people within a country from one location to another with a degree of permanence or intent to stay.  
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Diaspora   Dispersal of a people from their homeland to a new place, either voluntarily or by force.  
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Assimilation   When a minority group loses distinct cultural traits, such as dress, food, or speech, and adopts the customs of the dominant culture. Can happen voluntarily or by force.  
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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.  
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Gulags   Forced labor or prison labor camps. Most often associated with authoritarian countries.  
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Distance decay   Decreasing likelihood of diffusion with greater distance from the hearth.  
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Gravity model   Urban geography model that mathematically predicts the degree of interaction and probability of migration (and other flows) between two places.  
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Push factors   Circumstances a migrant considers when deciding to leave the home country.  
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Pull factors   Circumstances a migrant considers when deciding where to migrate.  
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Intervening opportunity   Presence of an opportunity near a migrant’s current location that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of migrating to a site farther away.  
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Unauthorized or undocumented migrants   Immigrants who enter without proper documents.  
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Coyotes   People who smuggle people across the border for a sizable fee.  
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Chain migration   Permanent movement from one place to another that follows kinship links. For example, a group of migrants settles in a place and then communicates with family and friends at their former location to encourage migration along the same path.  
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Repatriation   A refugee or group of refugees returning to their home country, usually with the assistance of government or a non governmental organization.  
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Asylum seekers   Migrant who claims the right to protection as a refugee in a country other than their home country.  
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Internally displaced persons (IDP’s)   People who have been displaced within their home country and do not cross international boundaries.  
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Bracero Program   Laws and agreements passed in the U.S. and Mexico in 1942 to encourage Mexicans to migrate to the United States to work in agriculture.  
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