families & households topic 5 Flashcards
(11 cards)
push factors
make you emigrate (eg. war)
pull factors
make you want to immigrate (eg. better jobs, housing)
emigration
leaving a country
immigration
moving into a country
migration
moving countries
citizen (type of migrant)
gain full citizenship, can vote etc, difficult to obtain
denziens (type of migrant)
privileged foreign nationals welcomed by the state, eg. billionaires
helots (type of migrant)
slaves who are usually illegally trafficked and exploited
transnational identity
someone who doesn’t see themselves as belonging to one culture (migrant often move from country to country and don’t settle in one place)
assimilation
state policy encourages imigrants to adopt the language and values of ‘host culture’
multiculturalism
acceptance that migrants may wish to keep a separate cultural identity