Chapter 5 test Flashcards
step migration
series of smaller moves to get to the final destination
guest workers
a migrant who travels to a new country as temporary labor
circular migration
migration pattern in which migrants workers move back and forth between their country of origin and the destination country where they work temporary jobs
refugees
a person who is forced to leave his or her country in fear of persecution or death
asylum
the right to protection in a country
Internally Displaced Persons(IDP)
a person who has been forced to flee his or her home country but remains within the countries borders
Human trafficking
defined by the United Nations as “the recruitment, transportation, harboring, or receipt of persons by improper means (such as force, abduction, fraud, or coercion)
repatriate
to return to ones country
interregional migration
movement from one region of a country to another
intraregional migration
movement within one region of a country
quotas
limit on the number of immigrants allowed into the country each year
kinship links
networks of relatives and friends
remittances
money earned by an emigrant abroad and sent back to his or her home country
brain drain
the loss of trained or educated people to the lure of work in another -often richer- country
relocation diffusion
the spread of cultural traits through the movement of people