Migration Notes

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Activity Space
Answer 1
The space within which daily activity occurs.
Brain drain
Answer 2
Large scale emigration of the talented people in a country
Chain migration (migration ladder)
Answer 3
Migration of people to a specific location where other countrymen or relatives are
Circulation
Answer 4
Short term, repetitive, cycling movements on a regular basis
Distance decay function
Answer 5
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomena with increasing distance of the hearth
Emigration
Answer 6
Migration from a location
Immigration
Answer 7
Migration to a location
Forced migration
Answer 8
Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors
Voluntary migration
Permanent movement undertaken by choice
Guest worker
Answer 10
Workers who move to North America and Europe from South and East Europe or North Africa looking for more jobs.
Gravity model
A model that holds the potential use of service at a location that is directly related to the number of people in a area and the distance needed to travel.
Internal migration
Permanent movement within a particular country.
International migration
Permanent movement from one country to another.
Intervening obstacle
An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration
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