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.
