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| calculates the monetary worth of what is produced within a country, plus income recieved from investments outside the country. (does not include illegal economy) |
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| Western hemisphere travel initiative |
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| passports required to travel to and from U.S., Mexico, and Canada. |
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| difference between immigration and emigration |
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| Which areas have the most net migration out? |
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| Latin America, Asia, Africa |
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| Which areas have the most net migration in? |
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| North America, Europe, Oceana |
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| Country with most immigrants |
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| True or False, developed countries move from rural to urban settings. |
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| Give an example of forced migration. |
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| Atlantic Slave trade, Britain forced out Irish, Stalin forced non-russians out |
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| sending people back to home country. |
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| Name a country that practiced repatriation. |
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| give an example of an intervening obstacle |
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| Rocky Mountains on way to California for Gold Rush |
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| True or False, forced migration is more likely to be associated with political push factors. |
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| True or False, voluntary migration is more likely to be associated with economic pull factors. |
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| What era occured in the 1500's? |
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| What era occured in the 1500's to the 1800's? |
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| Colonization era by Britain in U.s. and Asia |
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| What era occured in the 1800's to the 1900's? |
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| Colonization era by Britain in inner Asia and Africa |
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| the idea of moving out of Moscow and occupying eastern Russia |
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| True or False, a guest worker cannot be kicked out of a country until his or her work visa expires. |
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| What does UNHCR stand for? |
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| United Nations high commisioner for refugees |
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| Maximum number of people who can immigrate anually |
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| Where is the "brain drain" from poorer countries going? |
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| movement from cities to rural and suburban areas |
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| journeys that begin at home and bring us back |
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| journey from home to work and back again. A form of cyclic migration. |
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| Is nomadism a form of cyclic movement? |
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| involves returning home, but with longer absenses. |
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| Give an example of periodic movement. |
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| migrant labor, transhumance, college, military service, etc. |
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| a system of farming in which farmers move livestock according to the availability of pastures. |
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Which of the following is not one of the Ravenstein's laws of migration:
1. Every migration flow generates a return or countermigration.
2. Men are more mobile than women
3. Urban residents are less migratory than inhabitants of rural areas. |
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| 2. Men are more mobile than women |
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| What is the formula for the gravity model. |
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| (pop. A)(pop. B)/DISTANCE |
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| migrants are less likely to know more information about a faraway place than a nearby one. |
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| movement that takes place over a series of stages |
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| when a migrant itends to go to one location, but finds another opportunity along the way. |
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| when a migrant itends to go to one location, but finds another opportunity along the way. |
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| give an example of an econmic pull factor. |
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| job offers, wealthier economies, etc. |
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| give an example of a political push factor |
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| Give an example of an armed conflict and civil war push factor |
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| war in country, fear of war, drafted into army, etc. |
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| give an example of an environmental pull factor. |
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| Warmer climate, lower elevation, ocean, etc. |
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| give an example of a culture and tradition pull factor. |
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| when migrants move through family connections |
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| cities established by Great Britain for trading ops.Usually port cities |
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| give an example of a national/internal migration flow |
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| African-Americans heading North after the Civil War and back to the South after the Civil Rights Act, Russificaion, Americans moving West, etc. |
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Would the person described below fit the UNHCR's definitin of a refugee?
- a person who's home has been destroyed by a tsunami
- has no official papers
-has no money
_tracels to another country by foot |
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| refugees within own country |
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| Which ountry in Sub-Saharan Africa has the worst refugee crisis? |
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| Where are the largest numbers of refugees in Southeast Asia coming from? |
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| limiting immigrantsfrom a particular country or region |
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