Ch 5 Vocab
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| Mobility | All types of movement from one location to another, whether temporary or permanent or over short or long distances
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| Circulation | Temporary, repetitive movements that recur on a regular basis
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| Human Migration | The permanent movement of people from one place to another
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| Emigration | Movement away from a location
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| Immigration | Movement to a location
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| Net Migration | The difference between the number of emigrants and immigrants in a location, such as a city or country
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| Gravity Model | A model that predicts the interaction between two or more places; geographers derived the model from Newton's law of universal gravitation
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| Push Factor | A negative cause that compels someone to leave a location
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| Pull Factor | A positive cause that attracts someone to a new location
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| Internal Migration | Movement within a country's borders
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| Friction of Distance | A concept that states the longer a journey is, the more time, effort and cost it will involve
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| Transhumance | The movement of herds between pastures at cooler, higher elevations during the summer months and lower elevations during the winter
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| Chain Migration | Type of migration in which people move to a location because others from their community have previously migrated there
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| Step Migration | Series of smaller moves to get to the ultimate destination
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| Intervening Obstacle | An occurrence that hold migrants back
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| Intervening Opportunity | An occurrence that causes migrants to pause their journey by choice
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| Guest Workers | A migrant who travels to a new country as temporary labor
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| Circular Migration | Migration pattern in which migrant workers move back and forth between their country of origin and the destination country where they work temporary jobs
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| Refugee | A person who is forced to leave their country for fear of persecution or death
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| Asylum | The right to protection in a country
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| Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) | Person who has been forced to flee their home but remains within the country's borders
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| Human Trafficking | Defined by the UN as the "recruitment, transportation, harboring, or reciept of persons by improper means (such as force, abduction, fraud, or coercion)"
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| Repatriate | To return to one's home country
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| Interregional Migration | Movement from one region of a country to another
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| Intraregional Migration | Movement within one region of the country
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| Quotas | Limit on the number of immigrants allowed into the country each year
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| Kinship Links | Networks of relatives and friends
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| Skills Gap | A shortage of people trained in a particular industry
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| Remittances | Money earned by an emigrant abroad and sent back to their home country
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| Brain Drain | The loss of trained or educated people to the lure of work in another - often richer - country
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| Relocation Diffusion | The spread of culture traits through the movement of people
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