Unit 3: Vocabulary Flashcards
Push factor
negative conditions and perceptions that induce people to leave their homes and migrate to a new locale
Pull factor
a positive condition and perception that effectively attracts people to new locales and migrate to a new locale
Guest worker
a legal immigrant who has a work visa (usually short term)
Refugees
people who have fled their country because of political persecution and seek asylum in another country
Internally Displaced Person (IDP)
a person who has been displaced within their own country and does not cross international borders as they flee
Deportation
the act of a government sending a migrant out of its country and back to the migrant’s home country
Repartriation
a refugee or group of refugees returning to their home country. usually with government assistance or that of a non-governmental organization
Intervening opportunity
the presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminished the attractiveness of sites farther away
Step migration
migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, instead of all at once (e.g. from a farm to a nearby village and then to a town and a city)
Chain migration
a pattern of migration that develops when migrants move along and through kinship links (e.g. one migrant settles in a place and then communicates through others to describe the place to family, who then move there)
Transhumance
a seasonal and periodic movement of pastoralists and their livestock between highland and lowland pastures
Remittances
money migrants send back to family and friends in their home countries (often cash), forming an important part of the economy in many poorer countries
Immigrant
a person migrating into a particular country or area (an in-migrant)
Emigrant
a person migrating away from a country or area (an out-migrant)
Immigration laws
laws and regulations of a state designed specifically to control immigration in that state
