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Demography | study of human populations |
Ecumene | The proportion of earths surface occupied by permanent human settlement. This is important because its tells how much of the land has been built upon and how much land is left for us to build on |
Emigration | leaving your homeland to live in another country |
Immigration | people moving into a country |
Net Migration | immigration - emigration |
Push Factor | anything that would cause someone to move from someplace |
Pull Factor | something that induces people to move to someplace because that place has soemthing enticing to offer |
International Migration | human movement involving movement across international boundaries |
internal Migration | human movement within a nation-state, such as going westward and southward movements in the US |
counter urbanization | net migration from urban to rural areas in mdcs. |