International migration terms

Question 1

Voluntary migration

Answer 1

• When the individual or household has a free choice about whether to move or not

Question 2

Forced migration

Answer 2

• When the individual or household has little or no choice but to move

Question 3

Refugee

Answer 3

• A person who has been forced to leave home and country (always international)
• This is because of ‘a well-founded fear of persecution’
• On account of race, religion, social group, or political opinion

Question 4

Internally displaced person (IDP)

Answer 4

• Someone who has been forced to leave his/her home for reasons similar to a refugee but who remains in the same country

Question 5

Source area

Answer 5

• The region from which a group of migrants originate

Question 6

Receiving area

Answer 6

• The region to which migrants move

Question 7

Remittances

Answer 7

• Money sent back to their families in their home communitites by migrants

Question 8

Diaspora

Answer 8

• The dispersal of a people from their original homeland

Question 9

Multiplier effect

Answer 9

• Where an increase in the money supply in a region sets off an upward spiral of development as this money circulates in the economy

Question 10

Ethnicity

Answer 10

• The identification of individuals with particular ethnic groups

Question 11

Racial assimilation

Answer 11

• The gradual process of integration into the mainstream community
• This process has three main strands which are broadly in chronological order: economic, social, and political

Question 12

Ethnic Villages

Answer 12

• Show clear evidence of the groups residing within their areas in terms of shops, places of worship, schools, cinemas, newspapers, social facilites, advertising and of course street presence