Immigrant Experience Key terms

Question 1

Define Assimilation

Answer 1

The process of becoming a part, or making someone become a part, of a group, country or society.

Question 2

Define Asylum Seeker

Answer 2

Someone who leaves their own country, often for political reasons or because of war, and who travels to another country hoping that the government will protect them and allow them to live there.

Question 3

Define Brain Drain

Answer 3

The situation in which large numbers of educated and very skilled people leave their own country to live and work in another one where pay and conditions are better.

Question 4

Define Cosmopolitan

Answer 4

Containing people from many parts of the world.

Question 4

Define Country of Origin

Answer 4

The country from which a person originally comes.

Question 5

Define Cultural Bereavement

Answer 5

The loss of social structures, cultural values and identity felt by some migrants when living in a new country.

Question 6

Define Culture Shock

Answer 6

A feeling of uncertainty, confusion, or anxiety that people may experience when moving to a new country or experiencing a new culture or surroundings.

Question 6

Define Diaspora

Answer 6

A group of people who spread from one original country to other countries.

Question 7

Define Cultural Mosaic

Answer 7

A situation where ethnic groups, languages, and cultures coexist within society.

Question 8

Define Economic migrant

Answer 8

A person who travels from one country or area to another in order to improve their standard of living.

Question 9

Define Expatriate

Answer 9

A person who lives outside their native country. *Note that the application of this word to people from certain countries is contentious.

Question 10

Define First generation immigrant

Answer 10

An immigrant born abroad, or the child of an immigrant, born in the target country. There is no broad agreement on which definition to use.

Question 11

Define illegal immigration

Answer 11

The migration of people into a country in violation of the immigration laws of that country, or the continued residence of people without the legal right to live in that country

Question 12

Define Migrant

Answer 12

Any person who is moving or has moved across an international border or within a State away from his/her habitual place of residence.

Question 12

Define Imperialism

Answer 12

A policy of extending a country power and influence through colonization.

Question 12

Define Immigrant

Answer 12

A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.

Question 13

Define Melting pot

Answer 13

A place where different peoples, styles, cultures, etc. are mixed together.

Question 14

Define Multicultural

Answer 14

Relating to or containing several cultural or ethnic groups within a society.

Question 15

Define Refugee

Answer 15

A refugee, generally speaking, is a displaced person who has been forced to cross national boundaries and who cannot return home safely. Such a person may be called an asylum seeker until granted refugee status.

Question 15

Define Post colonialism

Answer 15

The critical academic study of the cultural legacy of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the human consequences of the control and exploitation of colonized people and their lands.

Question 15

Define Otherness

Answer 15

The quality or fact of being different.

Question 16

Define Pull Factors

Answer 16

Something that attracts people to go and live in a particular place.

Question 17

Define Push Factors

Answer 17

Something that makes people want to leave a place or escape from a particular situation.

Question 18

Define Transnational/ Hybrid (relating to a person)

Answer 18

A person with multiple identities and allegiances, who often travels between two or more countries.