Chapter 8: Population Migration

Question 0

Pull factor

Answer 0

Attract people to new places

Ex. Wages, education, safety, equality

Question 1

Push factor

Answer 1

Cause people to leave

Ex. Low wages, discrimination, war, food shortage

Question 2

Voluntary migration

Answer 2

Movement of people by their own free will

Question 3

Involuntary migration

Answer 3

Movement of people against their will

Question 4

Geopolitical migration

Answer 4

Displacement due to civil strife creating refugees and internal displacement

Question 5

Environmental migration

Answer 5

Involuntary migration forced by environmental change

Ex. Climate change

Question 6

Legal migration

Answer 6

Occurs within recognized government programs

Question 7

Illegal migration

Answer 7

Occurs when people sneak into a country by land or water or stay longer than their visas

Question 8

Internal migration

Answer 8

Occurs within a country’s borders

Ex. Rural to urban

Question 9

Brain gain

Answer 9

Increase of highly educated people in a country because migration

Question 10

Brain drain

Answer 10

Loss of highly educated people from a country because emigration

Question 11

Remittance

Answer 11

Money sent by a migrant to family members back home

Question 12

Refugee

Answer 12

People who flee their homes because of persecution, war, famine, defeatism

Question 13

Internally displaced persons

Answer 13

People forced to leave their homes but stay in their country

Question 14

Voluntary repiration

Answer 14

The safe return home once the danger subsides

Question 15

Local integration

Answer 15

Link refugees with groups that have linguistic and cultural ties

Question 16

Third-country resettlement

Answer 16

Find a third country willing to take refugees