AP Human Geography unit 3 migration – Flashcards
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Migration
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The movement of people from one place to another with the intention of settling in a new location Act of entering a country
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Emigration
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Act of leaving ones country
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Push factor
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Conditions that help a migrant decide to leave (forced)
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Pull factor
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Conditions that help a migrant attract to a location (voluntary)
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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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Intervening opportunity
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Presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of site farther away
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Ravensteins laws of migration
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Predicted flow of migrants 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 areas 5. Families are less likely to make international moves than young adults
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Cyclic movement
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Shorter regular trips away from home for defined amounts of time
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Periodic movement
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Pull factor; short term "seasonal" migration
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Transhumance
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Seasonal pastoral farming Def- A system of pastoral farming where ranchers move livestock between lowland and highland pastures according to the seasonal availability of pastures (seasonal)
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Step migration
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Short moves in stages
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Chain migration
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Migration of people to specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there
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Refugee
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A person flees across boundary lines
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Displaced person
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A migration when a person is forced to leave but stays within the boundary of their own country
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Guest workers
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Migrants whom a country allows in to fill a labor need, assuming the workers will go "home" once the labor need subsides - has short term visas - send remittances to home country - France has many from Algeria (N. Africa) - Germany has many from Turkey - US has a lot from Mexico
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Major Waves of Global Migration
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1. Europe to Americas 1500-1830s -Spanish, Portuguese, English 2. Africa to Americas (1500-1860) Diaspora= Scattering of culture 12 million out of Africa 3. United Kingdom to Australia and New Zealand (1770s-1850s) 4. India to East Africa and South East Asia (1840-1900) Indian Diaspora 5. China to South East Asia (1870-1920) 6. Eastern US to Western US (1830-1920) Manifest density- God told people to populate country and Christianize natives 7. Western Russia to Eastern Russia (1870-1990) Communists trying to expand territory 8. LDCs to MDCs ( present)
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Communism in Russia
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Western Europe= good side Eastern Europe= bad side Push and pull factors
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Israel Diaspora to Zionism
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Diaspora= Jews living outside of Israel, scattering of culture Zionism= a movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel. It was established as a political organization in 1897 under Theodor Herzl, and was later led by Chaim Weizmann.
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Distance decay
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A function that represents the way that some entity or its influence decays with distance from its ego gwithdistance from its geographical location.
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Gravity model (goes with distance decay)
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model that is used to account for a wide variety of flow patterns in human/economic systems, based on Newton's gravity equation which defines gravity or the flow potential (between two sites or locations) as directly proportional to the product of their masses (or size) and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them: gravity = (mass × mass) ÷ distance2
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Brain drain. Why do some countries accuse united state of encouraging the brain drain?
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Smart people migrate to other country (Albert Einstein) The United States immigration laws give preference to skilled and talented individuals.
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Counter urbanization
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de-urbanization is a demographic and social process whereby people move from urban areas to rural areas
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zelinsky Migration Transition Model
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Stage 1= premodern society - unlikely to migrate permanently to new location Stage 2= Early Transition Society -Rural to Urban is high - Global Migration is at its highest for countries in stage 2 Stage 3= Late Transitional Model - Rural to Urban plateaus - Urban to Urban goes up dramatically - Intra urban migration is high - urban suburban migration is high Stage 4= Advanced Society - inter urban migration is high - intra urban migration is high - Urban suburban migration is high Stage 5= Super advanced Society -almost all migration stagnates as the age of the population prevents too much movement
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Inter urban
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Between cities
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Intra urban
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Urban (within cities)
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Brain Drain
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Large scale emigration by talented people (Albert Einstein)
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Vietnamese boat people
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Thailand to India to France to US Step migration
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Russianffication
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Def- the Soviet policy to promote the diffusion of Russian culture throughout the republics of the former Soviet Union (trying to spread Russian culture throughout the S.U.) Ex- making sure all of the S.U. followed Russian culture, language, religion, etc. -real time example: Georgia- breakawa
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Examples of push factors
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War/safety, unemployment, gov corruption, environment, climate
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Examples of pull factors
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Freedoms, economic opportunity, job prospect, family, cultural ties,
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Migration stream
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Path one takes along the way