Human geography chapter 3 vocab

Asylum seeker

• Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee.

• Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries.

• A term once used for a worker who migrated to the developed countries of Northern and western Europe, usually from Southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of a higher paying job.

• Someone who is forced to migrate from his or her home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of his or her race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion.

Brain Drain

• Permanent movement undertaken by choice

• Large-scale emigration by talented people

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

• The temporary movement of a migrant worker between home and host countries to seek employment

Chain Migration

• A form of relocation diffusion that involves a permanent move to a new location

• All types of movements between locations

• In deference to migration, a law that places a maximum limit on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year

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

Circular Migration

• Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions such as excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting. Also known as semiarid land degradation

• Permanent movement, compelled by cultural or environmental factors

• The temporary movement of a migrant worker between home and host countries to seek employment

• Migration from a location

Circulation

• Permanent movement from one country to another

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

• Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an international border

• Permanent movement from one region of a country to another

Counterurbanization

• Someone who is forced to migrate from his or her home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of his or her race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion

• Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee

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

• Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries

Desertification

• Transfer of money by workers to people in the country from which they emigrated

• Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions such as excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting. Also known as semiarid land degradation/

• A person who enters a country without proper documents to do so

• Permanent movement undertaken by choice

Emigration

• The temporary movement of a migrant worker between home and host countries to seek employment

• A change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produces the demographic transition

• Migration from a location

• Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions such as excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting. Also known as semiarid land degradation

Floodplain

• Someone who is forced to migrate from his or her home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of his or her race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion

• Permanent movement from one region of a country to another

• A term once used for a worker who migrated to the developed countries of Northern and western Europe, usually from Southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of a higher-paying job

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

Forced Migration

• Permanent movement, compelled by cultural or environmental factors

• A change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produces the demographic transition

• Permanent movement from one country to another/

• Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an international border