Geo Unit 3: Week 2 Key Terms

Factors that encourage a population to leave its home.

• Push Factor

• Voluntary Factor

• Pull Factor

• Involuntary Factor

A permanent move from one country to another.

• Internal Migration

• Seasonal (Cyclical) Migration

• International Migration

• Return Migration

When people migrate in a back and forth pattern.

• Chain Migration

• Return Migration

• Reluctant Migration

• Seasonal (Cyclical) Migration

The places where people migrate to when they leave a location.

• Diaspora

• Migration Field

• Migration Map

• Location Migration

Factors that draw a population to another area or place.

• Push Factor

• Voluntary Factor

• Pull Factor

• Involuntary Factor

Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there.

• Chain Migration

• Return Migration

• Step Migration

• Seasonal (Cyclical) Migration

A group of people who share a cultural trait that have willingly or otherwise left their homeland.

• Migration Field

• Diaspora

• Cultural enclave

• Internal Migration

Migration where people feel like they must move because of safety reasons.

• Return Migration

• Chain Migration

• Seasonal (Cyclical) Migration

• Reluctant Migration

When a person goes back to live in their country of origin or citizenship.

• Internal Migration

• Return Migration

• Seasonal (Cyclical) Migration

• Step Migration

A permanent move within the same country.

• Internal Migration

• Seasonal (Cyclical) Migration

• International Migration

• Return Migration