Vocabulary 3 Flashcards
What is a pull factor?
A positive condition that may attract people to move to that place.
What is a push factor?
A negative condition that entices or attracts people to move elsewhere.
What is forced migration?
A type of movement in which people do not want to migrate, but do so under threat of violence.
What is voluntary migration?
Movement made by people by choice.
What does emigration mean?
To leave a place.
What does immigration mean?
To come to a place.
What is net migration?
The difference between the number of immigrants and the number of emigrants throughout the year.
What is urbanization?
The process whereby a society changes from a rural to an urban way of life, referring to the gradual increase in the population living in urban areas.
What are Ravenstein’s laws?
Most immigrants move only a short distance, and there is a process of absorption where surrounding people move into rapidly growing towns, filling gaps left by migrants from distant areas.
What is a quota?
A fixed minimum or maximum number of a particular group of people allowed to do something, such as immigrants entering a country.
Who is considered a refugee?
People forced to migrate from their homeland and cannot go back due to fear of persecution because of culture, religion, nationality, or membership in social groups.
What is a guest worker?
A person with temporary permission to work in another country.
What is an unauthorized worker?
Foreign nationals who reside in a country illegally.
What is an asylum seeker?
An immigrant who is seeking international asylum.
What is chain migration?
When one family moves to another country and the rest of the family follow.
What does mobility refer to?
The ability to move between different levels of society or employment.
What is remittance?
Money that guest workers send to their family or friends in the country they left.
What is brain drain/gain?
The emigration of highly trained or intelligent people from a particular area.
