2. Activity Space!!
The places we travel to routinely in our
rounds of daily activity
Examples: going to classes, going to a job
3. 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.
6. Diaspora
Theforced migration of the Jews by the
Romans in A.D. 70; any forced migration
on a particularly large scale that causes
dispersion.
7. Distance Decay Function
Distancedecay function- a function that
represents the way that some entity or its
influence decays with distance from its
geographical location.
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9. 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
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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
13. 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
14. 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.
15. Migration Stream
theflow 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).
17. Mobility
Theability to move or be moved
A general term dealing with all types of
movement (migration included)
18. Net Migration
The
difference between the number of
people entering and exiting a country.
19. 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.
20. Periodic Movement
A form of human movement that involves
longer periods away from home
Ex. Migrant labor, college, military service.
21. 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)
24. 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