Movement
Urbanisation
The process by which people move from rural areas to urban areas
Migration The large-scale movement of people across the world
Refugee - Someone forced to leave their country because of reasons like war, poverty, or persecution. Currently a plurality of refugees come from Syria.
Asylum - Protection that a country gives to refugees to assist them. The U.S. gets the most asylum applications out of any country.
Globalisation
The process by which the world becomes more socially and economically
connected and
interdependent
Immigrant - Someone who comes to a country
Undocumented Immigrant - An immigrant that doesn’t have legal documentation
Documented Immigrant - An immigrant that is recognized by the country they are staying in
Global supply chain - Where the steps of manufacturing, and shipping don’t take place in just one country; how goods are moved around the world
Emigrant - Someone who leaves a country for another
Internally Displaced Person, IDP - Someone who is forced to leave their home, but are still within their country. It is debated whether they are granted the same protection as refugees.
Winners From Globalization - Countries that are able gain a lot from globalization; developed countries
Losers From Globalization - Countries that suffer from globalization not being able to really profit from it; developing countries
Choke point - A space that slows down the ships going through like the Suez Canal, which are points of political tension because of the power granted to whoever controls them
Imports
Ivory Coast and Chocolate - A country in Africa that grows a lot of cocoa, and ships it to Europe to make chocolate.
Container ship - A type of ship that ships containers across the world, used for trading
Rural
Urban
Exports
Rural to Urban Migration
Rural to urban migration – push factors - Factors that push people away from rural areas, such as lack of job opportunities, lack of education, and low quality of life
Rural to urban migration- pull factors - Factors that pull people to urban areas, such as labor, economic, and education freedom and oppurtunities
Specialization - Where a country focuses on manufacturing/creating a certain product, allowing it to become better at that particular product
Comparative advantage - The ability for a country to make a certain product better than another
Urban Planning - The planning of a city, like where buildings, roads, schools, and other infrastructure should be
Population density - The number of people per unit of land in a certain area.
Primate city - A city that has at least two times the population of the second largest city. This poses a threat because of the massive amount of political and economic power a primate city can amass.
Sustainable Cities - green technology (from the urbanization videos we watched) - Cities that are more sustainable than other cities with more green technology that better for the environment
Balance of trade - The balance between exports and imports
Megacity - A large city with a population of over 10 million people
Belt and Road initiative - An initiative made by China to build infrastructure in other countries connecting the world. This is controversial because of the threat it poses to the autonomy of the developing countries who sign on with loans to china, and the promotion of autocratic ideals
Fair trade - A organization that is striving for better living standards for farmers/growers by have a minimum price for certain products
Brain drain - when all the ambitious and intelligent people move out of a rural area, leaving only the unambitious people.
Carrying Capacity - how many people an area can support, affected by better infrastructure and planning
Absolute Advantage - When a country is able to do something economy better than another
Infrastructure - The basic structure of a society, like roads, and schools
Capital/Investment - Wealth/money owned by a country
Gentrification - Where the rich people with money, forcing out the poorer people, and raising the overall living quality of the area
Vancouver, Canada - A city in Canada, in which we learned about gentrification and the displacement of historic residents.
Favela - A Brazilian ghetto; a very poor area
Redlining - Is where banks will not give loans/mortgages to certain people in certain areas that are determined poor; which leads people getting trapped in a cycle of poverty and lack of opportunity
Scarcity - When some good doesn’t have enough supply to meet demand
Commodity - Raw, unmanufactured goods
Creative Destruction - Where an idea of something or a product destroys another typically older/ outdated
Countryside areas, typically a farming district
Areas in cities, characterised by better infrastructure and higher population density
The goods that are going out of the country
The goods that are shipped into a country
Ukraine - A Country in Eastern Europe. We learned about refugees from both Ukraine and Russia, because of the Russo-Ukrainian war.