World Geo. Ch. 3 Def.
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- Brain Drain
- large scale emigration by talented people
- Quotas
- In reference to migration, laws that place maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year.
- Intervening Obstacle
- An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration.
- Net Migration
- The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration.
- Immigration
- migration to a new location
- Guest workers
- workers who migrate to the more developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually Southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of high paying jobs
- Internal migration
- permanent movement within a particular country
- Undocumented Immigrants
- People who enter a country without proper documents.
- Migration
- Form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location.
- International migration
- permanent movement from one country to another
- Interregional migration
- permanent movement from one region of a country to another
- Voluntary Migration
- Permanent movement undertaken by choice.
- Pull Factor
- Factor that induces people to move to a new location.
- Chain migration
- migration of people to a specific location because members of the same nationality previously migrated there
- Refugees
- People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion.
- Forced migration
- movement compelled usually by cultural factors
- Counter Urbanization
- net migration for urban to rural areas in more developed countries
- Push Factor
- Factor that induces people to leave old residences.
- Floodplain
- the area subject to flooding during a given number of years according to historical trends
- Intraregional Migration
- Permanent movement within one region of a country.
- Migration Transition
- Change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition.
- Emigration
- migration from a location
- Mobility
- All types of movement from one location to another.
- Circulation
- short term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis