UNIT 2: Chapter 5 - 2.11 & 2.12, Pages 115-124

Question 1

Forced Migration

Answer 1

Migration that is involuntary, meaning migrants have no choice but to move.

Question 2

Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)

Answer 2

If migrants move to another part of the same country (after crisis).

Question 3

Refugee

Answer 3

If migrants cross international borders (after crisis).

Question 4

Asylum

Answer 4

The protections granted by one country to an immigrant from another country who has a legitimate fear of harm or death if he or she returns.

Question 5

Voluntary Migration

Answer 5

Occurs when people chose to relocate

Question 6

Internal Migration

Answer 6

The movement that occurs within a country.

Question 7

Transnational Migration

Answer 7

When people move from one country to another, or internationally rather than internally

Question 8

Chain Migration

Answer 8

When people migrate to and settle in a new country, they often decide to locate in a city or community where others from their home country, family members friends, or those from their culture group have previously settled.

Question 9

Guest Worker

Answer 9

Transnational migrants who relocate to a new country to provide labor that isn’t available locally.

Question 10

Transhumance

Answer 10

The process of herders moving with their animals to different pastures during different seasons.

Question 11

Guest-worker Policies

Answer 11

Regulate the number of workers who can temporarily enter each country to work in specific industries for a defined amount of time.

Question 12

Family Reunification

Answer 12

Policies that allow migrants to sponsor family members who migrate to the country.

Question 13

Xenophobia

Answer 13

A strong dislike of people of another culture.

Question 14

Remittance

Answer 14

Money sent to their family and friends in the country they left.

Question 15

Brain Drain

Answer 15

When migration out of a country is made up of many highly skilled people.

Question 16

Ethnic Enclaves

Answer 16

Neighborhoods filled primarily with people of the same ethnic group.

Question 17

The Great Migration

Answer 17

The movement of millions of Americans from the South to cities in the rest of the country.

Question 18

Sun Belt Migration

Answer 18

Migrants felt pushed out of the North and northwest by harsh winters and the decline in job opportunities, so they moved toward the South/Sun Belt.