AP Human Geography - Chapter 3 Migration

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

• Asylum seeker

• Guest worker

• Remittance

• Refugees

Large-scale emigration by talented people.

• Mobility

• Emigration

• Circulation

• Brain drain

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

• Circular migration

• Emigration

• International migration

• Pull factor

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

• Family-based migration

• Circulation

• Immigration

• Quota

Net migration from urban to rural areas in developed countries.

• Interregional migration

• Circulation

• Counterurbanization

• Net migration

Migration from a location.

• Remittance

• Emigration

• Immigration

• Migration

Migration of people to a specific location because relatives previously migrated there.

• Family-based migration

• Migration transition

• Forced migration

• Step migration

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

• Intervening obstacle

• Quota

• Unauthorized immigrant

• Floodplain

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.

• Mobility

• Refugees

• Unauthorized immigrant

• Guest worker

Permanent movement, compelled by cultural or environmental factors.

• Internal migration

• Immigration

• Forced migration

• International migration