7th grade immigration Flashcards
political push factors of immigration
economic troubles, war, persecution
enviromental push factors
Chernobyl, droughts, potato famine
economic push factors
poor jobs want better luck
family pull factors
unite divided families
education pull factors
attend better schools and college
quality-of-life pull factors
better jobs, “American dream”, place of worship
economic impacts (jobs) of immigration
labor (farming, war, roads)
economic impacts (taxes) of immigration
benefit locally (schools, health clinics) or nationally (government)
cultural impacts of immigration to the united states
new food and holidays
cultural diffusion
spreading and mixing of cultures
brain drain
loss of well-educated people from immigrating
economic impacts of leaving homelands
brain drain, remmitances
immigrant
a person who moves to a new country
emigrant
a person who moves from a country
remittances
money sent back to one’s homeland