AP Human Geography Unit 2 Chapter 3 Vocab

Voluntary Migration

Permanent movement undertaken by choice

Unauthorized immigrants

A person who enters a country without proper documents to do so

Refugees

People who are forced out and have 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

Quota

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

Push factors

The factor that induces people to leave old locations

Pull factor

A factor that induces people to move to a new location

Net migration

The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration

Mobility

All types of movement between locations

Migration transition

A change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other economic changes that also produce the demographic transition

Migration

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

Intraregional migration

Permanent movement within one region of a country

Intervening obstacle

An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration

Interregional migration

Permanent movement from one region of a country to another

International migration

Permanent movement from one country to another

Internal migration

Permanent movement within a particular country

Immigration

Migration to a new location

Guest workers

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

Forced migration

Permanent movement compelled by cultural or environmental factors

Counterurbanization

Net migration from urban to rural in developed countries

Emigration

Migration from a location

Circulation

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

Flood plain

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

Brain drain

Large-scale emigration by talented people

Chain Migration

Movement driven by social network and family/community connections