SOC 023 Study Guide - Final Guide: Bracero Program, Multiple Choice, Life Table
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Human development index (hdi: country specific quotas, allowed immigration from latin america, asia, africa, and middle east. Economic growth: the process that people move from one place to another and this represents the flow. Migration stock: series of laws and diplomatic agreements, initiated by an august 1942 exchange of diplomatic notes between the u. s. and mexico for the importation of temporary contract laborers from mexico to the u. s. Bracero program: increase in the total amount of income produced by nations or regions without regard to the total number of people. Stationary population: geographic movement that is not permanent, or sufficiently short distance that is not considered to be migration. Stationary population: rise in standard of living, improved health and technology, poverty reduction, and advancement of human rights. Purchasing power parity (ppp: number of out-migrants per 1,000 of total population. Gross rate of in-migration: increase in the number and proportion of the elderly (65+) population.
