AP Human Geography - Chapter 5 Vocab

Push factors

a negative cause that compels someone to leave a location

Pull factors

a positive cause that attracts someone to a new location

Intervening opportunities

an occurrence that causes migrants to pause their journey by choice

Intervening obstacles

an occurrence that holds migrants back

Forced migration

type of migration in which people are compelled to move by economic, political, environmental, or cultural factors

Step migration

series of smaller moves to get to the ultimate destination

Refugees

a person who is forced to leave his or her country for fear of persecution or death

Internally displaced persons

person who has been forced to flee his or her home but remains within the country's borders

Asylum seekers

Individuals who flee their home country due to fear of persecution and seek protection in another country.

Voluntary migration

type of migration in which people make the choice to move to a new place

Transnational migration

international migration in which people retain strong cultural, emotional, and financial ties with their countries of origin

Guest worker

a migrant who travels to a new country as temporary labor

Rural-to-urban migration

movement of people from the countryside to cities