Chapter 3 Vocabulary

Brain drain- Large-scale emigration by talented people.

 

Branch - (of a religion) A large and fundamental division within a religion.

 

Chain migration - Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there.

 

Circulation - Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis.

 

Counter-urbanization - Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries.

 

Emigration - Migration from a location.

 

Floodplain - The area subject to flooding during a given number of years according to historical trends.

 

Forced migration - Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors.

 

Guest workers - Workers who migrate to the more developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of higher-paying jobs.

 

Immigration - Migration to a new location.

 

Internal migration - Permanent movement within a particular country.

 

International migration - Permanent movement from one country to another.

 

Interregional migration - Permanent movement from one region of a country to another.

 

Intervening obstacle - An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration.

 

Intraregional migration - Permanent movement within one region of a country.

 

Migration - Form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location.

 

Migration transition - 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.

 

Mobility - All types of movement from one location to another.

 

Net migration - The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration.

 

Pull factors - Factors that induce people to move to a new location.

 

Push factors - Factors that induce people to leave old residences.

 

Quota - In reference to migration, a law that places maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year

 

Refugees - People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion.

 

Undocumented immigrants - People who enter a country without proper documents.

 

Voluntary migration - Permanent movement undertaken by choice.

 

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