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| What do you call a permanent move to a new location? |
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| Migration from a location |
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| A general term covering all types of movement |
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| Short term, repetitive, or cyclical movements |
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| Why do most people migrate? |
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| What else, besides economy, induces migration? |
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| Cultural and environmental factors. |
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| A factor that induces someone to move out of their present location |
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| A factor that induces someone to move to a new location |
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| What two countries have been prime destinations for migrants looking for a better economy? |
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| America (U.S.) and Canada |
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| What two countries have recently begun to attract migrants, after years of net out-migration? |
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| Why has most forced migration happened? |
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| Political instability and slavery |
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| When were people shipped to the Western Hemisphere because of slavery? |
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| Eighteenth and early Nineteenth centuries. |
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| People who have been forced to migrate from their home and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a society, or political opinion. |
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| What are the two largest groups of international refugees? |
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| Palestinians (Israel) and Afghans (Afghanistan) |
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| Where are the two largest groups of internal refugees? |
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| What did the Berlin Wall do? |
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| Restrict emigration from East Berlin to West Berlin. |
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| What is the push factor that most affects people? |
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| How much or how little water there is |
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| The area subject to flooding during a specific number of years |
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| What name became the nickname of dry parts of the U.S? |
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| What is an intervening obstacle? |
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| Something that hinders migration |
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| What is an intervening obstacle most likely going to be? |
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| What is an Environmental intervening obstacle most likely going to be? |
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| What is a very significant intervening obstacle? |
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| What improvements have promoted globalization? |
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| Transportation improvements |
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| Where do most migrants go? |
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| They stay within their own countries |
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| What is international migration? |
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| Permanent migration from one country to another |
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| What is internal migration? |
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| Permanent migration within the same country |
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| What is interregional Migration? |
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| Movement from one region of a country to another |
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| What is intraregional migration? |
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| Movement within one region |
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| Which is more numerous: International migrants or Internal migrants? |
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| What is the main type of interregional migration? |
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| What factors usually cause forced migration? |
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| When does international migration normally start in the migration transition? |
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| In which two stages are internal migration more important? |
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| What stage does interregional migration become important in? |
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| Describe most long distance migrants |
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| Single males without a family to care for |
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| What percent of migrants are children (under 15 years of age)? |
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| What stage of the Demographic Transition is Mexico in? |
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| What areas are more than three-fourths of Mexican migrants from? |
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| Why do businesses like to employ undocumented workers? |
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| They can give them less money. |
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| What continents have a net out-migration? |
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| Asia, Latin America, and Africa |
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| What continents have a net in-migration? |
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| North America, Europe, and Oceania |
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| What are the three largest flows of migration? |
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To Europe from Asia
To North America from Asia
To North America from Latin America |
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| What are the fourth and fifth largest flows of migration? |
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To North America from Europe
To Oceania from Asia |
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| Where were approximately one half of immigrants in the U.S. born? |
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| What two continents of origin did the other half of immigrants in the U.S. come from? |
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| What percent of the population in the U.S. do immigrants make up? |
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| What was the first era of immigration in the U.S? |
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| Who were the second era of immigration in the U.S? |
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| Who were the third era of immigration in the U.S? |
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| Latin Americans and Asians |
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| What country within Europe has sent the most immigrants to the U.S? |
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| Why did immigration drop in the 1930s-1940s? |
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| The Great Depression and World War II |
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