AP Human Geo Unit 2 Vocab list 2 - Migration

Migration

The movement of people from one place to another.

Emigration

The process of leaving one's country of origin in order to settle in another country permanently.

Immigration

The movement of people to another country for permanent settlement.

Net migration

The number of immigrants minus the number of emigrants, including citizens and noncitizens.

Circulation

Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis. An example of this is somebody going from home to school to home at the same times everyday.

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.

Push factor

Something that encourages an individual to migrate away from a certain place.

Pull factor

Positive factors that attract people to new areas from other areas.

Intervening obstacle

An environmental or cultural feature that hinders migration.

International migration

Permanent movement from one country to another.

Internal migration

Permanent movement within a particular country.

Interregional migration

Permanent movement from one region of a country to another.

Intraregional migration

The permanent movement within a single region of a country.

Voluntary migration

Movement in which people relocate in response to perceived opportunity, not because they were forced to move.

Forced migration

The movers have no choice but to relocate

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.

Chain migration

Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there.

Unauthorized immigrant

People who enter a country without proper documents to do so.

Quotas

A law that places maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year.

Brain drain

The large-scale emigration of a large group of individuals with technical skills or knowledge

Guest worker

A foreign worker who has been temporarily aloud to work in a host country. Many employers benefit at the use of Guest Workers as they can lower their labor costs. Most Guest Workers take part in manual labor.

Counter urbanization

The process by which a significant portion of the population of an urban center starts to migrate away from the city to live in suburbs or rural areas.