Migration Vocabulary

Question 1

Adaption

Answer 1

Changing one’s behavior to fit with local customs

Question 2

Agrarian

Answer 2

Related to famers, farming, agriculture

Question 3

Ameliorate

Answer 3

Relieve or reduce pressure

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Ancestor

Answer 4

Someone from whom you and one of your parents are descended

Question 5

Arable

Answer 5

Land that can be used for agriculture

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Assimilation

Answer 6

To take local attitudes and make them your own

Question 7

Bourgeois

Answer 7

The middle class

Question 8

Brain Drain

Answer 8

The phenomenon in wich developing counties send their best students abroad for a higher Education and they choose to stay abroad rather than return home.

Question 9

Clandestine

Answer 9

Something kept or done in secret

Question 10

Confederation

Answer 10

A group of bodies that work together for a common goal

Question 11

Demography

Answer 11

The study of characteristics of a particular population.

Question 12

Diaspora

Answer 12

Group whose members live scattered outside of their traditional homeland.

Question 13

Embargo

Answer 13

An official order forbiding smething

Question 14

Emigration

Answer 14

To leave a place with the intent of settling elsewhare

Question 15

Ethnic

Answer 15

Common characteristics such as religion, culture, language that make peple feel part of a common group.

Question 16

Expatriate

Answer 16

Someone who resides in a forgein country

Question 17

Expropriate

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Take possession of someone else’s property for your own use without permission

Question 18

Gerrymander

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To devide territory

Question 19

Illiterate

Answer 19

Unable to read or write

Question 20

Immigration

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Come to a place with the intent of settling there

Question 21

Indigenous

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Native to a particular place or country

Question 22

Informal Economy

Answer 22

Economic activities not taxed or monitored by government

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Junta

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A small group of people who rule a country after taking power in a coup or revolution

Question 24

Literacy

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The ability to read and write

Question 25

Marginality

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Kept on the outside; made insignificant

Question 26

Megalopolis

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A very large urban area

Question 27

Monoculture

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The use of land growing only one type of crop

Question 28

Nepotolism

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The practise of showing favoritsm to family members

Question 29

Per Capita Income

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How much each person would make if the country’s total income were divided evengly among all people

Question 30

Persecution

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Threating someone badly because of their religion, race language, etc. is different from others

Question 31

Political Asylum

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When a country allows a fogein citizen to stay there to avoid trouble in their home country

Question 32

Pundit

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A learned person or authoritavive voice

Question 33

Refugee

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A person who seeks shelter from war, disaster.

Question 34

Remittance

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Income sent hme by migrants from abroad

Question 35

Remuneration

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Salary or payment for a job

Question 36

Revenue

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Money made by the government

Question 37

Sabbatical

Answer 37

An extended period of leave from one’s job

Question 38

Shantytown

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A poor area of a city where people live

Question 39

Sharecropping

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A system where farmers rent land in excange of the good insted of rent

Question 40

Skilled Labor

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Work that requires some kind of specialized training

Question 41

Sovereignty

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A nation or state’s supreme power within its borders

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Unskilled Labor

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Work that requires some kind of specialized training

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Urbanization

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The process by wich cities grow

Question 44

Welfare

Answer 44

Assistance provided by the government to the poor