Chapter 3: Migration Flashcards
What is a push factor?
Something that pushes people from their place of origin
What is a pull factor?
Something that induces people to move to that location
What is an intervening obstacle?
An environmental or political factor that prevents or hinders migration
What is a refugee?
A person that has been forced to migrate to avoid various typos of violence, violations of human rights, natural disasters and cannot return due to it being unsafe for them to do sp
What is an asylum seeker?
Someone who has migrated to another country in hopes of being recognized as a refugee
What is an Internally displaced person?
A person who has been forced to migrate due to similar reasons as a refugee but has not crossed international borders
What is a brain drain?
The emigration of talented people to places where they can make better use of their abilities
What is chain migration?
The migration of people to a specific location because relatives or people of the same nationality have previously migrated there.
What is a quota?
A limit placed on the amount of people who can emigrate to the United States within one year
What is an unauthorized immigrant?
Somebody who enters the country without proper paperwork
A permanent move to a new locations is what?
Migration
Migration away from a location is what, while migration to a location is called what?
Emigration, immigration
What would be considered a migration pull factor?
Opening of a new factory
Most people migrate from one country to another primarily because of what factor?
Economic
The largest numbers of recent immigrants to the US are
Relatives of US residents
