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