Unit 1 Essential Terms

force (someone) to leave their home, typically because of war, persecution, or natural disaster

• metropolitan area

• urban sprawl

• marginalized

• displace

in, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town.

• metropolitan area

• rural

• push factor

• revitalization

Conditions in migrants' home countries that make it difficult or even impossible to live there

• push factors

• rural fringe

• emigrate

• pull factos

The total number of moves made during a given migration interval that have a common area of origin and a common area of destination.

• immigrate

• emigrate

• urban fringe

• migration stream

The process of renovating and improving a house or district so that it conforms to middle-class taste.

• revitalization

• gentrification

• urban

• immigrate

An outlying district of a city, especially a residential one.

• urban core

• rural fringe

• suburb

• pull factor

treat (a person, group, or concept) as insignificant or peripheral.

• revitalize

• urban sprawl

• immigrate

• marginalize

The older part of a big city. Often serves as the downtown or business district.

• urban sprawl

• suburb

• urban core

• rural

The rapid, often poorly planned spread of development from an urban area outward to rural parts.

• urban fringe

• urban core

• urban sprawl

• suburbs

leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another

• immigration stream

• immigrate

• displaced

• emigrate