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Geog1101
Graham Pickren
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Geography
Undergraduate 1
01/28/2010

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age-sex pyramids-
Definition

a representation of the population based on its composition according to age and sex.

       It is the most common way for demographers to graphically represent the combination of the population.

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Amartya Sen-  
Definition

Noble peace prize winner. Bengal famine.

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Thomas Malthus

Definition

wrote Essay on the principle of population. Food is necessary, and reproduction is awesome! Population growth. Vs food supply. We are running out of FOOD!!!!! If the poor, reproduce, that’s more poor people that don’t have food…

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Thomas Malthus
Definition
wrote Essay on the principle of population. Food is necessary, and reproduction is awesome! Population growth. Vs food supply. We are running out of FOOD!!!!! If the poor, reproduce, that’s more poor people that don’t have food…
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Neo-Malthusians
Definition

followers of thomas’ perspective.

population policy

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baby boom
Definition
generation from 1946-1964. Worries of taking care of aged “baby boomers”.
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Census
Definition
is a straightforward count of the number of people in a country, region, or city.
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Demography
Definition
(the study of the characteristics of human populations), from the perspective of… why do people live here, and there…”the why of the where?” 
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Forced Migration
Definition

Where migration occurs against the individual’s will, push factors can produce …

guest workers

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Immigration
Definition
Moving TO another location/place
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Internally displaced persons
Definition
individuals who are uprooted within the boundaries of their own country because of conflict or human rights abuse.
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Push factor
Definition

are events and conditions that impel an individual to move from a location.

 

Pushing you to move

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Pull factors
Definition
are forces of attraction that influence migrants to move to a particular place
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Refugees-
Definition

individuals who cross national boundaries to seek safety and asylum

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NAFTA
Definition

North American Free Trade

 

agreement that allowed a borderless Mexico, US, and Canada Trade.

No taxes on goods, and products exporting or importing

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Neo-liberal economics- 
Definition

(liberal=liberty) Free market economic policy. Would be opposed to governmental intervention, 

 

1.   privatization

2.   de regulation

3.   reduced role for government

 


 

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