Migration facts Flashcards
Economic migration
A choice to move to improve the standard of living by gaining a better paid job
Voluntary migration
Relocation according to personal desires
Forced migration
Permeant movement, usually compelled by cultural factors that is done to an outside force
Step Migration
Migration that follows a path of a series of stages or steps towards a final destination
Pull factors
A feature that induces people to move to a certain location
Push Factors
A feature that induces people to move out of a current location
Asylum seeker
A person who from fear of persecution has moved country to be granted refugee status to stay there forever
refugee
A person who is forces to migrate from his or her home country and cannot return for fear of persecution
Intervening obstacle
An environment or cultural feature of a landscape that hinders migration
People smuggling
The transportation or illegal entry of a person across an international border in violation of laws
