This document defines key vocabulary terms related to human migration patterns and processes. Some of the terms defined include brain drain, circulation, diaspora, emigration/immigration, forced/voluntary migration, guest worker, international migration, migration stream, push-pull factors, remittances, and suburbanization. Definitions provide examples to illustrate each migration-related concept.

1.  Vocabulary
Words 
Migration vocab

2. Activity Space!!
The places we travel to routinely in our
rounds of daily activity 
Examples: going to classes, going to a job

3. Brain Drain
The large-scale emigration of a large group
of individuals with technical skills or
knowledge.
Examples: Anti-Semitism in Pre-WWll Europe,
Spanish Expulsion of Jews and Moors.

4. Circulation
 Short-term,
repetitive, or cyclical
movements that recur on a regular basis

5. Chain Migration
 Describes migrant flows from a common
origin to the same destination.

6. Diaspora
 Theforced migration of the Jews by the
Romans in A.D. 70; any forced migration
on a particularly large scale that causes
dispersion.

7. Distance Decay Function
 Distancedecay function- a function that
represents the way that some entity or its
influence decays with distance from its
geographical location.

9. Emigration/Immigration
 Emigration – prompted by a variety of
factors, as people might leave their
country to flee a war, find education, or
join their family in another land
 Immigration – the act of coming to and
setting in a new homeland or country
from one’s original homeland or country

10. Forced/ Voluntary Migration
 Forced migration- when someone has to
migrate against their own will.
 Voluntary migration- when somebody
chooses to leave by their own will.

11. Guest Worker
 Workers who migrate to the more
developed countries – not citizens –
temporary nature
 of the Northern and Western Europe ,
usually form Southern and Eastern Europe
or from North Africa, in search of higher-
paying jobs.

12. Intervening
Obstacle/Opportunity
 Obstacle: an environmental or cultural
feature of a landscape that hinders
migration
 Opportunity: the presence of a nearer
opportunity that greatly diminishes the
attractiveness of sites farther away or a
closer less expensive opportunity for
obtaining a good or service, or for a
migration destination

13. International Migration
 International Migration is when people
cross state(country) boundaries and stay
in the host state for some minimum length
of time.
 International Migration is also when a
person moves from one place to another.
 Brody is a beast. Brody will be
experiencing international migration if he
places this on a slide again

14. Migration Transition
A change in the migration pattern in a
society that results from industrialization,
population growth, and other social and
economic changes that also produce the
demographic transition.

15. Migration Stream
 theflow of people moving in or out of an
area. An area can have an "in-migration
stream" (its immigrants) and it can have
an "out-migration stream" (its emigrants).

16. Migration Selectivity
 Onlypeople exhibiting certain
characteristics in a population choosing
to migrate

17. Mobility
 Theability to move or be moved
 A general term dealing with all types of
movement (migration included)

18. Net Migration
 The
difference between the number of
people entering and exiting a country.

19. Step Migration, Dawg!
 A series of many migration streams that appear on maps as
long, unbroken routes when in fact, consist of a series of stages
 Ex: a peasant family in rural Brazil is likely to move first to a
village , then to a nearby town, later to a city, and later to a
metropolis such as Sao Paulo of Rio de Janeiro. At each stage
a new set of pull factors comes into play.
 EX #2: The Beverly hillbillies started in a very small town. Then
they found oil. Then they would have to move to a bigger town
till they received their payment. Once they received their
money, they were able to move to Beverly Hills.

20. Periodic Movement
A form of human movement that involves
longer periods away from home
 Ex. Migrant labor, college, military service.

21. Push-Pull Factor
 A push-pull factor can be defined as a factor
that either entices a person to visit and area
or forces them away from an area.
 For example, Mexican immigrants migrate to
the United States because of the ample
economic opportunities compared to
Mexico. (Pull factor)
 During World War II, many Polish moved from
Poland to safer areas due to the threat of war
with German. (Push factor)

22. Remittances
 Remittance is the sending of money
earned in one country to another to ones
family.

23. Time-Contract Workers
 Workersrecruited for a fixed period to
work in menial or unskilled positions

24. Transhumance
 Seasonal movement of livestock between
mountain and lowland pastures either
under the care of herders or in the
company of their owners.
 A shepherd moving his goats from a
mountain to a valley

25. Suburbanization
 The
growth of areas on the fringes of
major cities.

26. Counter Urbanization
 CounterUrbanization is a demographic
and social process whereby people move
from urban areas to rural areas