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Migration
world geography - Summerville High School
Term | Definition |
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Refugee | a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster |
Emigrant | a person who leaves their own country in order to settle permanently in another |
Immigrant | a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country |
Push Factor | a negative aspect or condition that motivates one to leave |
Pull Factor | a benefit that attracts people to a certain place |
Movement | the spread of ideas, goods, services, or people |
Migration | movement from one place to another |
Assimilation | a person or persons acquire the social and psychological characteristics of a group |
Chain Migration | endless chains of foreign nationals who are allowed to immigrate |
Ethnic Neighborhood | area with a much higher concentration of a particular ethnic or cultural group that doesn't dominate the area |
Supranational Organization | multinational political union where negotiated power is delegated to an authority by governments of member states |
Xenophobia | the fear of foreigners |
Mexico | where most immigrants in the United States are from today |
Potato Famine | forced the Irish to immigrate to America between 1840-1850 |
Slavery | African forced migration during the Colonial Wave |
Industrial Revolution | Pull Factor for the 3rd European Wave |