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Geography
Chapter 19 - Migration
Term | Definition |
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migrate | move from one place to another |
internal migration | move from one place to another within a country |
international migration | leave one country to go live in another |
migrant | a person who moves from one place to another to find work or better living conditions |
immigrant | a person who comes to live in a foreign country |
emigrant | a person who leaves their own country to live in another |
refugee | an immigrant given special permission to live in another country because of war, natural disasters or persecution |
asylum seeker | an immigrant looking to be accepted as a refugee in another country |
internally displaced person | a person forced to flee his or her home but who remains within his or her country's borders |
forced migration | when someone is forced to move due to war or famine |
individual migration | when a person moves from one country or district to another |
organised migration | planned migration of people carried out by governments or other agencies |
push factors | factors that force a person to move examples -drought -famine -over-population -lack of jobs -climate change -civil war |
pull factors | factors that attract a person to move to another country or region examples -better jobs -better education -better standard of living -better access to services |
barriers to migration | factors that prevent or discourage migration from occurring examples -leaving family -cost of travel |
globalisation | is the process whereby the world has become more interconnected |
network factors | globalisation has introduced factors known as network factors that have influenced migration. these factors include- -the flee flow of information -improved global communications -the faster and lower cost of moving from one place to another |
origin | source |
multi-ethnic | culturally mixed |
loss of well-educated people | brain drain |