GEOG 5 Lecture 3: Geog5Lecture3
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Mobility: general term for all types of human movement: short-term mobility, residential mobility, commuting, often referred to on a local scale. Migration: human movement at larger spatial and temporal scales the movement from one country, place, or locality to another: directed migration, circular migration. Chain migration: an established linkage from origin and destination. Usally direct personal ties through friends and family. Channelized migration: tendency for migration between areas that are linked (socially, economically) by past migration patterns. Does not necessarily involve personal or family ties. Tends to increase return flows in the other direction. Examples: movement of retirees to florida, movement of african- Pull factors: peace and security, work, education, protection, perspective for the future, health-care. Push factors: war and violent conflict, unemployment, persecution, destruction of the environment, diseases. What makes a spatial definition absolute or relative: space and place, location, distance and direction, space and place. Relative space: perceptural, variable, dependent on relationships and activities.
