GEOG101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Country Living, Ethnic Cleansing, Mass Media

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Geography and Environmental Management
• Course: GEOG101
• Professor: Elijah Bisung

Document Summary

A permanent relocation of ones place of residence and generally considered to be a long distance move. Migrant leaving one country or region and moving. Occur when people move back and forth between two places or among a few locations. Small scale: people commuting back and forth to work. Can also be seasonal for winter months o o o o. Economic consequences for both hometowns and warmer destinations. Also common for pastoral nomads (farmers who move their animals during the course of a year) As water and vegetation availability changes, nomads pack up and move to another location but often move back to same location at the same time each year. Periodic movements o time to time but are not permanent. Population moves often over long distances that occur from. Similar to cyclical movements but time away from home is much longer.