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