Migration Vocab Flashcards
Pull factors
Positive coordinates in a place that may attract people to move to a new place.
Push factors
Negative circumstances, events, or conditions present where people live, which entice or attract them to move elsewhere.
Forced migration
A type of movement in which people do not choose to relocate, but do so under threat of violence.
Voluntary migration
Movement made by people by choice.
Emigration
To leave a place.
Immigration
To come to a place.
Net migration
Difference between the number of immigrants and the number of emigrants throughout the year.
Urbanization
The process whereby a society changes from a rural to an urban way of life. It refers also to the gradual increase in the population of people living in urban areas.
Ravenstein’s laws
Most immigrants move only a short distance. There is a process of absorption, whereby people immediately surrounding a rapidly growing town move into it and the gaps they leave are filled by migrants from more distant areas, and so on until the attractive force is spent.
Quota
A fixed min. or max. number of a particular group of people allowed to do something; such as immigrants to enter a country, workers to undertake a job, or students to enroll for a course.
Refugee
People forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion.
Guest Worker
A person with temporary permission to work in another country.
Unauthorized immigrant
Foreign nationals who reside in a country illegally.
Asylum seeker
Immigrant who is seeking international protection.
Chain migration
When one family migrates to a new country and the rest of the family follows shortly after.
Mobility
Ability to move between different levels of society or employment.
Remittance
Money that guest workers sent to their family and friends in the country they left.
Brain drain/gain
Emigration of highly trained or intelligent people from a particular country.
