Vocabulary
Words Migration vocab
Activity Space!!
The places we travel to routinely in our rounds of daily activity
Examples: going to classes, going to a job
Brain Drain
The large-scale emigration of a large group
of individuals with technical skills or
knowledge.
Examples: Anti-Semitism in Pre-WWll Europe,
Spanish Expulsion of Jews and Moors.
Circulation
Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical
movements that recur on a regular basis
Chain Migration
Describes migrant flows from a common
origin to the same destination.
Diaspora
The forced migration of the Jews by the
Romans in A.D. 70; any forced migration
on a particularly large scale that causes
dispersion.
Distance Decay Function
Distance decay function- a function that
represents the way that some entity or its
influence decays with distance from its
geographical location.
Emigration/Immigration
Emigration – prompted by a variety of
factors, as people might leave their
country to flee a war, find education, or
join their family in another land
Immigration – the act of coming to and
setting in a new homeland or country
from one’s original homeland or country
Forced/ Voluntary Migration
Forced migration- when someone has to
migrate against their own will.
Voluntary migration- when somebody
chooses to leave by their own will.
Guest Worker
Workers who migrate to the more
developed countries – not citizens –
temporary nature
of the Northern and Western Europe ,
usually form Southern and Eastern Europe
or from North Africa, in search of higher-
paying jobs.
Intervening
Obstacle/Opportunity
Obstacle: an environmental or cultural
feature of a landscape that hinders
migration
Opportunity: the presence of a nearer
opportunity that greatly diminishes the
attractiveness of sites farther away or a
closer less expensive opportunity for
obtaining a good or service, or for a
migration destination
International Migration
International Migration is when people cross state(country) boundaries and stay in the host state for some minimum length of time.
International Migration is also when a person moves from one place to another.
Brody is a beast. Brody will be experiencing international migration if he places this on a slide again
Migration Transition
A change in the migration pattern in a
society that results from industrialization,
population growth, and other social and
economic changes that also produce the
demographic transition.
Migration Stream
the flow of people moving in or out of an
area. An area can have an "in-migration
stream" (its immigrants) and it can have
an "out-migration stream" (its emigrants).
Migration Selectivity
Only people exhibiting certain
characteristics in a population choosing
to migrate
Mobility
The ability to move or be moved
A general term dealing with all types of
movement (migration included)
Net Migration
The difference between the number of
people entering and exiting a country.
Step Migration, Dawg! A series of many migration streams that appear on maps as
long, unbroken routes when in fact, consist of a series of stages
Ex: a peasant family in rural Brazil is likely to move first to a
village , then to a nearby town, later to a city, and later to a
metropolis such as Sao Paulo of Rio de Janeiro. At each stage
a new set of pull factors comes into play.
EX #2: The Beverly hillbillies started in a very small town. Then
they found oil. Then they would have to move to a bigger town
till they received their payment. Once they received their
money, they were able to move to Beverly Hills.
Periodic Movement
A form of human movement that involves
longer periods away from home
Ex. Migrant labor, college, military service.
Push-Pull Factor A push-pull factor can be defined as a factor
that either entices a person to visit and area or forces them away from an area.
For example, Mexican immigrants migrate to the United States because of the ample economic opportunities compared to Mexico. (Pull factor)
During World War II, many Polish moved from Poland to safer areas due to the threat of war with German. (Push factor)
Remittances
Remittance is the sending of money
earned in one country to another to ones
family.
Time-Contract Workers
Workers recruited for a fixed period to
work in menial or unskilled positions
Transhumance
Seasonal movement of livestock between
mountain and lowland pastures either
under the care of herders or in the
company of their owners.
A shepherd moving his goats from a
mountain to a valley
Suburbanization
The growth of areas on the fringes of
major cities.
Counter Urbanization
Counter Urbanization is a demographic
and social process whereby people move
from urban areas to rural areas