Migration (College Board AP® Human Geography): Exam Questions

War

Environmental disaster

Religious persecution

Higher-income

Poverty

Leaving your home country to live in another.

Moving to a new country

The difference between people leaving and entering a country.

The movement of a person out of coercion or other involuntary reasons.

An active choice to leave a country.

Number of refugees minus the number of emigrants

Number of asylum seekers minus the number of refugees

Number of forced migrants minus the number of voluntary migrants

Number of immigrants minus the number of emigrants

Number of emigrants minus the number of immigrants

More people are immigrating to a country, than people are emigrating from it

More people are emigrating from a country than immigrating to it

Low rates of immigration and emigration

The conscious decision to move to a new country. 

The coercion of migration to another country.

The movement of people from rural to urban areas.

Migration is where a person moves to multiple areas before settling in their final destination

The conscious decision of moving to a new country

The coercion of migration to another country.

A flow of migration in the opposite direction to the original.

Most migration happens over a shorter distance

Migrants are usually adults

Migration occurs in stages

People in urban areas are more likely to migrate than those in rural areas

Economic reasons are the main cause of migration

The way that migration occurs in stages

The movement of people seasonally, typically with livestock

Migration that occurs within the home country.

Migrating to a new country, whilst maintaining connections to their original culture.

The movement of more than one person to the same place.

Forced displacement from natural disasters.

Forced migration through the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Voluntary migration for work in exchange for goods.

Transhumance, following traditional pastoral routes.

Counter-migration of illegal immigrants via famous trade routes.

Transhumance

Chain

Step

Asylum Seeking

Transnational

Someone who has left their country out of force, due to war, persecution or natural disasters.

People who have left their country due to persecution, but do not yet have legal recognition as a refugee.

A person who has been forced to leave where they live due to violence, conflict or natural disasters, but have not yet crossed an international border.

A person who moves from one place to another

People who move within their own country

Isaac Newton

Everett Lee

E.G. Ravenstein

Wilbur Zelinsky

Walt Rostow

The movement of livestock between different places when seasons change

A person fleeing their country due to a natural disaster.

A person fleeing their home due to warfare, but not leaving their country.

A person waiting for legal status in a new country after leaving their home country due to persecution.

A person moving from Florida to California

When they find a home in their own country after being displaced

When they move house within their own country

When they return home

When they cross an international border

When they get a job 

People moving to another country, looking for legal status

The movement of people within one country

The movement of livestock seasonally

People moving to a country for low-skilled labor jobs

People being displaced in their own country, but not crossing international borders

Asylum seekers

Refugees

Guest workers 

Internally Displaced Persons

Herders

The combination of skills and knowledge helps to contribute to economic growth and development.

When migrants send money back home in the form of remittances, to support those they have left behind. 

When countries lose their brightest and smartest people, they migrate elsewhere for better opportunities and income, leaving behind a slower-growing economy. 

The return of migrants to their original countries, bringing with them new skills and innovation.

Migrants moving to a particular place via chain migration. 

Remittances 

Family reunification

Brain drain 

Micro-loans

Asylum seekers

A mix of cultures living together in one space.

The separation of different groups of people based on religion or ethnicity

A change in infrastructure, culture and population as a result of high income residents moving in

The ethnic segregation that occurs naturally without the law intervening

An area with a high concentration of a certain ethnic group, typically within another culture.

Wilbur Zelinsky 

Isaac Newton 

Everett Lee

E.G. Ravenstein

Warren Thompson 

Stage 2

Stage 5

Stage 4

Stage 1

Stage 3

Stage 5

Stage 3

Stage 4

Stage 2

Stage 1

Was the first law to outline naturalization and citizenship

Allowed the sponsor of family members of migrants

Gave land to migrants to farm for five years.

Allowed the temporary work of foreign nationals for a short period of time.

Added tax to those entering US ports and stopped certain groups entering the country.