GEOG100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Cultural Assimilation, Natural Disaster, U.S. Route 3
6 Feb 2016
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Cyclical: people moving back and forth between two or more places. Periodic: longer term, but still temporary movement. Circulation: temporary movement and use of space (work, studies, vacation) Migration: longer-term commitment (full-time employment, buying a house) Gross migration: total number of people that leave and enter a country, province, region, etc. Out migration: the total number of people who. In migration: the total number of people who enter leave a country a country. Mass migration: collective movement (community colonization) Free (voluntary) reluctant vs involuntary. Forced: war (leave or die), slavery, forcible repatriation, natural disaster. Impelled: war (risk of death), ethnic cleansing, environmental refugee. The recruitment, transportation, transfer, involuntary harboring or receipt of persons by threat or use of force. Refugees: a person living outside of his/her own country who cannot return home because of fear of injury or persecution. Internally displaced persons (idps): a person is displaced in his or her own country.
