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Example

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Remittance
s

Money migrants send back to family

and friends in their home countries,
often in cash, forming an important
part of the economy in poorer
countries.

A young man working

in Saudi Arabia sends
40% of his yearly
income to his mother
and siblings in
Bangladesh.

Rm

Reverse
Remittances

Money sent to migrants from

friends and family in their home
countries.

A young man working

in Saudi Arabia
receives 20% of his
familys yearly
income.

RRm

Cyclic
Movement

Movement that has a closed

route and is repeated annually or
seasonally.

Nomadic Migration

CM

Periodic
Movement

Movement that involves

temporary, recurrent location.

College Attendance

PM

Migration

A change in residence intended

to be permanent.

My grandparents
migration to America.

Activity
Spaces

The space in which daily activity

occurs.

A football player has

a larger activity
space than a
computer engineer.

AS

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Nomadism

Movement among a definite set

of places.

Romanian gypsies are

nomads.

Migrant
Labor

A common type of periodic

movement in which workers cross a
border in seek of employment.

A Mexican man
crosses the border
into Texas to find a
job.

ML

Transhuma
nce

A seasonal periodic movement of

pastoralists and their livestock
between highland and lowland
pastures.

A shepherd moves his

sheep to a different
field when the grass in
his area runs out.

Th

Military
Service

A periodic movement in which

military service members and/or
their families are temporarily
transported to bases where they
serve.

A marine who is
transported from
Florida to a base in
Kentucky.

MS

Internation
al
Migration

Human movement involving

movement across international
borders.

A man from
Swaziland moves to
Luxembourg.

IM

Immigratio
n

The act of a person migrating to a

particular country or area.

An African man
immigrates to Europe.

Imm

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Internal
Immigratio
n

Human movement within a

nation or state.

Moving from New

York to California.

IImm

Forced
Migration

Human migration flows in which

the movers have no choice but to
relocate.

The Israelite exile to

Babylon.

FM

Voluntary
Migration

Movement in which people

relocate in response to a
perceived opportunity.

A man from Serbia

moves to New York
for a better financial
situation.

VM

Laws of
Migration

Five laws that predict the flow of

migration.

Most migrants move

only a short distance.

LoM

Gravity
Model

A mathematical prediction of the

interaction of places.

N/A

GM

Push
Factors

Negative conditions that induce

people to migrate away from a
place.

Economic depression.

PsF

Pull Factors

Positive conditions that induce

people to migrate to a place.

Job availability.

PlF

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Distance
Decay

The effects of distance on

interaction.

A worker in America has

trouble communicating
with his parents in
Mongolia.

DD

Step
Migration

Migration to a distant destination

that occurs in stages.

Intervening
Opportunit
y

The presence of a nearer

opportunity that greatly diminishes
the attractiveness of sites farther
away.

Deportatio
n

The act of a government sending a

migrant out of its country and back
to the migrants home country.

An illegal immigrant from

Mexico gets caught on the
American border, and is
sent back to Mexico.

Kinship
Links

Types of push and pull factors that

influence a migrants decision to go
where family or friends have already
found success.

A migrant decides to
move to Arkansas and
farm there, because

KL

Chain
Migration

Pattern of migration that develops

when migrants move along and
through kinship links.

The man living in the

oasis writes his family
telling them how great
the oasis is, and then
they migrate there.

CM

A family moves to a
farm, then a nearby
village, and then a
larger city.
A man on his way to a
poor desert city
decides to settle at a
comfortable oasis in
the desert.

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Immigratio
n Wave

Phenomenon whereby different

patterns of chain migration build
upon one another to create a swell
in migration from one origin to the
same destination.

Multiple people living in

the oasis tell their families
to come as well and a
large group migration
occurs.

ImmW

Global-Scale
Migration

Migration that takes place across

international boundaries and
between world regions.

Someone from China

migrates from South
America.

GSM

Explorer

A person examining a region

that is unknown to them.

Christopher
Columbus

Colonizatio
n

The process of establishing

government and population in an
unoccupied land.

The British colonizing

in America.

Regional
Scale

Interactions occurring within a

region, in a regional setting.

Movement from
Florida to Georgia.

RS

Islands of
Developmen
t

Place built up by a government or

corporation to attract foreign
investment and which has relatively
high concentrations of paying jobs
and infrastructure.

New York or Florida.

IoD

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Russificatio
n

The Soviet policy to promote the

diffusion of Russian culture
throughout the republics of the
former Soviet Union.

A certain area changes

its normally native
language to Russian.

Ru

Guest
Workers

Legal immigrant who has a work

visa, usually short term.

A man from Bolivia

legally crosses the
border to work in
Argentina every day.

GW

Refugees

People who have fled their country

because of political persecution
and seek asylum in another
country.

A Syrian man leaves his

country to go to Egypt
because of civil war.

Internally
Displaced
Persons

People who have been displaced

within their own countries and do
not cross international borders as
they flee.

A boy from Peru runs

away from home in
search of a better
opportunity, but stays
in Peru.

IDP

Asylum

Shelter and protection in one

state for refugees from another
state.

A man from Ukraine

seeks asylum in
Turkey.

Repatriatio
n

A refugee or group of refugees

returning to their home country.

The man goes back

to Ukraine.

RePa

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Genocide

The systematic mass murder of a racial or

cultural group.

The Holocaust

Geno

Immigrant

A person migrating into a

particular country or area.

A man migrates from China

to America.

Imi

Quotas

Established limits by governments on

the number of immigrants who can
enter a country each year.

Americas quota limits the

amount of people that
emigrate from a country to
America to 3% of the people
from that country already
living in America.

Selective
Immigratio
n

Process to control immigration in

which individuals with certain
backgrounds are barred from
immigrating.

A man from France is

denied access into the
United States because of
an extensive criminal
record.

SI

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