Unit 2 Migration Vocab

Question 1

The process of changes in
culture that result from
the meeting of two
groups, each of which
retains distinct culture
features.

Answer 1

Acculturation

Question 2

The process by which a
group’s cultural features
are altered to resemble
those of another dominant
group.

Answer 2

Assimilation

Question 3

a refugee who is seeking
asylum or safety in
another country after
escaping their home
country for fear of their
lives

Answer 3

Asylum Seeker

Question 4

Large-scale emigration by
talented people

Answer 4

Brain drain

Question 5

Migration of people to a
specific location because
relatives or members of
the same nationality
previously migrated there

Answer 5

Chain migration

Question 6

The temporary movement
of a migrant worker
between home and host
countries to seek
employment

Answer 6

Circular migration

Question 7

Short-term, repetitive, or
cyclical movements that
recur on a regular basis

Answer 7

Circulation

Question 8

Net migration from urban
to rural areas in more
developed countries

Answer 8

Counterurbanization

Question 9

Degradation of land,
especially in semiarid
areas, primarily because of
human actions such as
excessive crop planting,
animal grazing, and tree
cutting.

Answer 9

Desertification

Question 10

Migration from a location

Answer 10

Emigration

Question 11

The area subject to
flooding during a given
number of years according
to historical trends

Answer 11

Floodplain

Question 12

Permanent movement
compelled usually by
cultural factors.

Answer 12

Forced migration

Question 13

Workers who migrate to
the more developed
countries of Northern and
Western Europe, usually
from Southern and Eastern
Europe or from North
Africa, in search of higher-
paying jobs.

Answer 13

Guest workers

Question 14

Migration to a new
location

Answer 14

Immigration

Question 15

Permanent movement
within a particular
country

Answer 15

Internal migration

Question 16

Someone who has been
forced to migrate for
similar political reasons as
a refugee but has not
migrated across an
international border.

Answer 16

Internally Displaced
Person (IDP)

Question 17

Permanent movement
from one country to
another

Answer 17

International migration

Question 18

Permanent movement
from one region of a
country to another

Answer 18

Interregional migration

Question 19

An environmental or
cultural feature of the
landscape that hinders
migration

Answer 19

Intervening obstacle

Question 20

Permanent movement
within one region of a
country.

Answer 20

Intraregional migration

Question 21

Form of relocation
diffusion involving a
permanent move to a new
location.

Answer 21

Migration

Question 22

Change in the migration
pattern in a society that
results from
industrialization,
population growth, and
other social and economic
changes that also produce
the demographic
transition.

Answer 22

Migration transition

Question 23

All types of movement
from one location to
another.

Answer 23

Mobility

Question 24

The difference between
the level of immigration
and the level of
emigration

Answer 24

Net migration

Question 25

Factor that induces people
to move to a new location

Answer 25

Pull factor

Question 26

Factor that induces people
to leave old residences

Answer 26

Push factor

Question 27

In reference to migration,
laws that place maximum
limits on the number of
people who can immigrate
to a country each year.

Answer 27

Quotas

Question 28

People who are 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

Answer 28

Refugees

Question 29

Transfer of money by
workers to people in the
country from which the
emigrated.

Answer 29

Remittance

Question 30

People who enter a
country without proper
documents.

Answer 30

Unauthorized immigrants

Question 31

Permanent movement
undertaken by choice.

Answer 31

Voluntary migration