D. Answer briefly:
What do you mean by the term 'migration'?
1.
What is shifting agriculture?
2.
Name the two types of forced migration.
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4.
Name the river which faced floods in Kashmir in the year 2014.
5. Name two things that changed the orthodox thinking of people.
Answers
Answer:
1. The definition of a migration is a movement to another place, often of a large group of people or animals. An example of migration is geese flying south for the winter.
2. Shifting cultivation. Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which a person uses a piece of land, only to abandon or alter the initial use a short time later. This system often involves clearing of a piece of land followed by several years of wood harvesting or farming until the soil loses fertility.
3. He identifies two types of "pushed" refugee migrations: anticipatory flows in which refugees, individually or in small groups, flee deteriorating conditions before ac- tually being forced out; and acute flows in which large numbers flee from imminent dan- ger to the safety of a neighboring country (1973:131-136).
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