Ap human geo unit 3 vocab

Activity space

The places we travel to routinely during our daily activities

Chain migration

Migration of people to a specific place because of relatives or members of the same nationality already there

cyclical movement

daily migrations we make in our everyday lives

gravity model

an inverse relationship between volume of migration and distance to the destination 

intervening opportunity

an alternative that appears during a journey or migration, causing a person to stop at a new location instead of their original destination

intervening obstacle

factors that hinder or block migration, including environmental features like mountains, economic challenges like the cost of travel, and political barriers such as visa restrictions

laws of migration 

Most migration is short distance and in stages, long distance migrants go to cities, men immigrate more than women.

deportation

The act of a government expelling a person from a country due to immigration law violations 

refugees

A person forced to flee home country due to persecution, to seek asylum

displaced persons

Someone forced to leave their home to due conflicts but remains in their country’s borders.

asylum

A form of protection a country offers to refugees

step migration

The process of moving in a series of stages or steps to reach a final destination

Transhumance

seasonal migration of animal pastors between lowlands in the winter and mountains in the summer

islands of development

A geographically concentrated area, often built by governments that has high quality infrastructure and incentives to attract foreign investment and jobs

guest worker

A person who temporarily migrates to another country to take a job with a work visa and will return home once expires 

distance decay 

The distance between 2 places increases the interactions between decreases

quotas

government imposed limits on the # of immigrants allowed from a certain place into a country each year

remittances

The money or goods sent by migrants to their families in their country of origin

Diaspora

The people that move in where there is natives got kicked out or left

diaspora

the removal of natives from a place

Push factors

Factors that push people from their own country

pull factors

factors that entise and pull people from other countries