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AP Human Geography Vocab.

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Cyclic Movement   show
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Activity Spaces   show
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Snowbirds   show
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show A type of cyclic movement when herders move livestock through the year to continually find fresh water and green pastures.  
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show Migration pattern in which livestock are led to highlands during summer months and lowlands during winter months to graze.  
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show 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   show
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Emigrants   show
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Immigrants   show
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Net Migration   show
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Refugees   show
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Remittances   show
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Reverse Remittances   show
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Guest Workers   show
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Islands of Development   show
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show 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   show
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show 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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show 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   show
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Distance Decay   show
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Gravity Model   show
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Push Factors   show
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show Circumstances a migrant considers when deciding where to migrate.  
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show 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   show
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show People who smuggle people across the border for a sizable fee.  
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show 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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show 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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show Migrant who claims the right to protection as a refugee in a country other than their home country.  
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show People who have been displaced within their home country and do not cross international boundaries.  
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show 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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