Unit 2 Vocab Part 3 Word Scramble
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| Anti Natalist Theory | Government programs designed to decrease the fertility rate and slow down population growth. |
| ESPeN hD | Economic, Social, Political, and Environmental, and Demographic causes and effects of migration. |
| Refugee | Someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war or violence. |
| Rural-to-Urban Migration | Most typical kind of migration trend, up to 55% of people live in urban areas today. |
| Migration | The permanent or semipermanent relocation of people from one place to another. |
| Asylum Seeker | When people flee their own country and seek sanctuary in another country. |
| Push Factor | Negative circumstances, events, or conditions present in a location that causes people to move away. |
| Transnational Migration | Migration from one country to another country. |
| Neo-Malthusian Theory | Theory that shows concerns about sustainable use of the environment - the earth’s resources cannot only sustain a finite (limited) population. Looks at more than just food output (unlike original malthusian theory). |
| Ravenstein's Laws of Migration | Patterns and trends found in migration and migrants. |
| Pronatalist Theory | Government programs designed to increase the fertility rate and accelerate population growth. |
| Transhumance | Traditional migration of nomadic herders that move their livestock from high elevations in the summer and lower elevations in the winter. |
| Immigration Policies | Policies that look to control the population through laws targeting migration. |
| Pull Factor | Positive conditions and circumstances of a location that encourages people to move to that place. |
| Chain Migration | Immigrants migrate to a location based off of the recommendation of or reunification with family members, friends, or community members that have previously migrated to that location. |
| Voluntary Migration | People migrate due to their own choices. |
| Forced Migration | People relocate due to fears of violence or survival. |
| Internal Migration | Migrants that travel within a country’s borders. Much more likely than transnational migration. |
| Intervening Obstacle | Barriers that hold migrants back from continuing to travel. |
| Step Migration | Migration typically occurs in steps, migrants reach their eventual destination through a series of smaller movements. |
| Malthusian Theory | Theory that population will grow exponentially while food output will not. This would result in a food shortage and famine due to overpopulation. Malthus said governments should intervene. |
| Internally Displaced Person | Someone who has been forced to flee their home but never crosses an international border. |
| Guest Worker | Migrants who travel internationally in order to find work as temporary laborers - typically a short period of time because the jobs cannot be filled by a country’s own labor force. |
| Boserup's Theory | Counter to what Malthus said, Boserup claimed that as population increases, humans will develop new technologies to also increase production of food supply. |
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