AP Human Geography, Unit 2: Concepts #2

Asylum

The legal protection granted to individuals who have fled from their home country due to fear of persecution.

Brain Drain

The large scale emigration of skillful individuals.

Chain Migration

The process of migration where individuals relocate to a specific location following friends and/or family.

Forced Migration

Involuntary movement via compelling political, economic, and environmental factors.

Guest Worker

Temporary migrant workers moving to another country due to employment or labor shortages.

Internally Displaced Person

Individuals being forced to flee out of their place due to political conflict but have yet to cross an international border.

Lee's Model of Migration

The model representing migration decision due to push factors, pull factors, intervening obstacles, and intervening opportunities.

Migrant

Individuals who migrate from a place to another, typically for better lifestyle changes.

Net-In Migration

When the number of immigrants is greater than emigrants according to net migration.

Net-Out Migration

When the number of emigrants is greater than immigrants according to net migration.

Pull Factor

Positive advantages attracting people to migrate to a region.

Push Factor

Negative conditions causing people to emigrate.

Quota

A maximum limit for the number of immigrants entering a country every year set by the government.

Ravenstein's Laws of Migration

A series of generalized assumptions of human migration stated by geographer Ernest Georg Ravenstein.

Refugee

An individual who flees their country to escape political conflict.

Transhumance

The seasonal migration of livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures.

Voluntary Migration

The movement of people from one place to another by choice.

Zelinsky's Migration Transition Model

The model representing migration patterns through every stage of the demographic transition model.