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What is migration?
A change in residence intended to be permanent
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What is push factors?
Negative conditions and factors or perceptions that induce people to leave their adobe and migrate.
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What is the Southwest US and Florida?
Since the 1940s, millioms of migrants from Latin America have migrated to__________________.
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Who invented the gravity model?
Henry Carey
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What are types of migration? or How do people migrate?
International migration, internal migration, forced migration, voluntary migration.
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What is pull factor?
Positive conditions and factors that effectively attract people
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What is migrant labor?
Workers world wide who cross international broders in search of employment and become immigrants
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What is the U.S?
In 1986, the ___________ government passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act or IRCA.
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Who is E.G. Ravenstein?
Laws of migration, 1885
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What was one forced migration?
The Atlantic Slave Trade, 1701-1810
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What are refugees?
People have fled their country because of political persecution and seek asylum in another country
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What is guest workers?
legal immigrants who has a work visa, usually short term
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What are males?
Most internatinal migrants are _______
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What are the laws of migration?
1. Every migration flow generates a return or counter-migration.
2. The majority of migrants move a short distance. 3. Migrants who move longer distances tend to choose big-city destinations. 4. Urban residents are less migratory than inhabitants of rural |
Why do people migrate?
Moving away for a chance for a job in another place, closer to familiar places (family), school, etc.
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What are quotas?
Established limits by governments on the number of immigrants who can enter a country each year
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What is chain migration?
Pattern of migration that develops when migrants move along and through kingship links and family or friends end up moving to the same area
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What is families?
________ groups are less likely to migrate or move
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What is the gravity model?
Assumption that spatial interaction is directly related to the populations and inversely related to the distance between them.
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Cyclic movement; periodic movement
Difference between ________ and _________ is that one deals with short periods of time away from home while the other deals a longer period of time from home.
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What is periodic movement?
Movement that involves temporary, recurrent relocation
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What is cyclic movement?
Migration that has closed route and its repeated annually or seasonally
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What is Hispanics?
_________ account for 31% of the US population.
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What is distance decay?
Effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction.
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How do governments affect migration?
Restricts migration flow. Control the migration in and out the country.
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