AP Human Geography Unit 3 Vocab

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Asylum seeker

Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee

Brain drain

Large-scale emigration by talented people

Circulation

Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis

Counterurbanization

Net migration from urban to rural areas in developed countries

Emigration

Permanent movement of people from a location

Family-based migration

Migration of people to a specific location because relatives previously migrated there

Floodplain

The area subject of flooding during a given number of years, according to historical trends

Forced migration

Permanent movement of people compelled by political or environmental factors

Guest worker

A term once used for a worker in search of a higher-paying job who migrated to the developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa

Immigration

Permanent movement of people to a new location

Internal migration

Permanent movement of people within a particular country

Internally displaced person (IDP)

Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but who has not migrated across an international border

International migration

Permanent movement of people from one country to another

Interregional migration

Permanent movement of people from one region of a country to another

Intervening obstacle

An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration

Intraregional migration

Permanent relocation of people within one region of a country

Migration

A form of relocation diffusion involving permanent relocation of people to a new location

Migration transition

A change in the pattern of movement of people in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produces the demographic transition

Mobility

All types of movements of people between locations

Net migration

The difference in a given place between the level of immigration and the level of emigration

Pull factor

A reason that induces people to move to a new location

Push factor

A reason that induces people to leave old location

Quota

In reference to migration, a law that places maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year

Refugee

Someone who is forced to migrate from their home country and who cannot return to that home country for fear of persecution because of race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion

Remittance

Transfer of money by migrate workers from the country into which they immigrated to people in the country form which they emigrated

Step migration

Movement of people that follows a path of a series of stages or steps towards a final desination

Unauthorized immigrant

A person who enters country without proper documents to do so

Voluntary migration

Permanent movement of people undertaken by choice

Ravenstein’s law of migration

A set of 19th-century geographic principles that explain patterns of human movement, distance, and migrant characteristics

Intervening opportunities

The presence of a nearer, attractive option along a migration route that diminishes the appeal of a more distant destination, causing a migrant to stop and settle there instead

Transnational migration

A type of voluntary migration where individuals cross international borders while maintaining active social, economic, and political ties to their home country

Transhumance

The seasonal, cyclical movement of herders and their livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures

Rural-to-urban migration

The physical movement of people from countryside and agricultural areas into towns and cities

Atlantic slave trade

The largest forced migration in human history, involving the trafficking of an estimated 12.5 million Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas between the 15th and 19th centuries