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. image_2022-10-23_174409431

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
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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.
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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
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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 bri_map

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
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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 image_2022-10-23_174225900

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
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Areas in cities, characterised by better infrastructure and higher population densityimage_2022-10-23_173152758

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.
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