GEOG101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Immigration, Land Degradation, Natural Disaster
5 Apr 2017
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Migration versus mobility: migration: permanent relocation (more-or-less, usually long-distance, can be international or domestic/internal, mobility: "the capacity to move from one place to another, wither permanently or temporarily" Measuring migration: gross migration: total # of people that leave & enter country (province, region, etc. , out-migration: the total # of people who leave a country (emigration) In-migration: the total # of people who arrive in a country (immigration: net migration: the difference (i. e. enter minus leave) International migration - voluntary & forced: one country to another. Internal migration - voluntary & forced: within a country. Categorizing migration: push/pull factors, economic; education; escaping hardship (war, natural disaster, environmental damage, degree of choice (freedom) to migrate, voluntary or forced, controls, limited by laws, quotas, etc. Forced/involuntary: war (leave or die, natural disaster. Reluctant relocation: war (risk of death, ethnic cleansing, eco-migration. Social consequences: can lead to cultural assimilation or cultural conflict.
