Migration Vocabulary

Question 1

Cyclic movement

Answer 1

Movement that takes you away from home for a short period of time

Question 2

Periodic movement

Answer 2

Movement for a long period of time

Question 3

Transhumance

Answer 3

Seasonal periodic movement of a rancher

Question 4

Forced Migration

Answer 4

Do not have a choice to move

Question 5

Voluntary migration

Answer 5

A choice to move

Question 6

Chain Migration

Answer 6

Migrate along family links

Question 7

Intervening Migration

Answer 7

Presence of a nearer opportunity that diminishes the attractiveness of the original destination

Question 8

In Migration

Answer 8

Move into a region

Question 9

Internal Migration

Answer 9

Move within a country

Question 10

Inter regional Migration

Answer 10

Permanent movement from one region to another within a country

Question 11

Intra regional Migration

Answer 11

Permanent movement within a region

Question 12

International Migration

Answer 12

Move across country borders

Question 13

Migration selectivity

Answer 13

Maximum limit of quota

Question 14

Net migration rate

Answer 14

Difference between immigration and emigration

Question 15

Out migration

Answer 15

Leave a region

Question 16

Ernst ravenstien

Answer 16

British geographer who created the laws of migration

Question 17

Refugee

Answer 17

Person who fled a country because of persecution

Question 18

Laws of migration

Answer 18

Predict the flow of migrants

Question 19

Quotas

Answer 19

Establish limits by the government on the numbering immigrants

Question 20

Asylum

Answer 20

Shelter and protection for refugees

Question 21

Guest workers

Answer 21

Legal immigrant who has a work visa

Question 22

Islands of development

Answer 22

A place built by the government to attract foreign investment

Question 23

Remittances

Answer 23

Money sent back home

Question 24

Repartition

Answer 24

Government sends refugees back home