Ap Human Geography chap 3 vocab

Brain Drain

• Large scale emigration of talented and skilled individuals

• Small scale emigration of talented and skilled individuals

chain migration (migration ladder)

• A stream of people out of an area as first movers communicate with people back home and stimulate others to follow later.

• Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis.

circulation

• Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis.

• the movement of people out of urban areas to escape over crowding, pollution, and economic disadvantages.

Counterurbanization

• the movement of people out of urban areas to escape over crowding, pollution, and economic disadvantages.

• Migration from a location.

Emigration

• Migration from a location.

• The area subject to flooding during a given number of years, according to historical trends.

Floodplain

• The area subject to flooding during a given number of years, according to historical trends.

• Permanent movement compelled by a factor outside the migrant's control.

Forced migration

• Permanent movement compelled by a factor outside the migrant's control.

• A citizen of a usually poorer country who obtains a job in a Western European country

Guest worker

• A citizen of a usually poorer country who obtains a job in a Western European country

• Migration to a location.

Immigration

• Migration to a location.

• Permanent movement within a particular country

International Migration

• Permanent movement from one country to another.

• Migration between regions