AP Human Geography Chapter 3 Vocab example #86012

money migrant send back to family and friends in their home coutnries, often in cash, forming an important part of the economy in many poorer coutnries

Movement - for example, nomadic migration - that has closed route and is repeated annually or seasonally

the space within which daily activity occurs

movement among a definite set of places. Ex of cyclic movement.

Movement - for example, college attendance or military service - that involves temporary, recurrent relocation

a common type of periodic movemetn involving millions of worker in the US and tens of millions of workers worldwide who cross internationl borders in search of employment and become immigrants, in many instances

a seasonal periodic movement of pastorarists and their livestock between highland and lowland

another common form of periodic movement involving as many as 10 million US citizens in a given year, including military personnel and their families, who are moved to new locations where they will spend tours of duty lasting up to several years

a change in residence intended to be permanent

human movement involving movement across international boundaries

human movement within a nation-state, such as going westward and southward movements in the US

human migration flows in which the movers have not choice but to relocate

movement in which people relocate in response to perceived opportunity; not forced.

developed by British demographer Ernst Ravenstein, 5 laws that predict the flow of migrants

a mathmatical prediction of the interation of places, the interation being a function of population size of the respective places and the distance between them

negative conditions and perceptions that induce people to leave their adobe and migrate to a new location

positive conditions and perceptions that induce people to new locations from other areas

the effects of distance on interactions, generally greater the distance the less interaction

migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village and later to a town and city

The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away.

types of push or pull factors that influence a migrant's decision to go where family or friends have already found success

pattern of migration that develops when migrants move along and through kinship links

Phenomenon whereby different patterns of chain migration build upon one another to create a swell in migration from one origin to the same destination.

a person examining a region that is unknown to them

physical process whereby the colonizer takes over another place, putting its own government in charge and either moving its own people into the place or bringing in indentured outsiders to gain control of the people and the land

Place built up by a government or corporation to attract foreign investment and which has relatively high concentrations of paying jobs and infrastructure

legal immigrant who has work visa, usually short term

people who have fled their country because of political persecution and seek asylum in another country

people who have been displaced within their own countries and do not cross international borders as they flee

refugees who have crossed one or more international boundaries during their dislocation, searching for asylum in a different country

shelter and protection in one state for refugees from another country

laws and regulations of a state designed specifically to control immigration into the state

established limits by governments on the number of immigrants who can enter a country each year

process to control immigration in which individuals with certain backgrounds are barred from immigrating