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Migration Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Coyote | a person who smuggles Latin Americans across the US border, typically for a high fee. |
| Undocumented | not having the appropriate legal documentation to reside in a nation (an illegal immigrant) |
| Vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a home or job. |
| Immigration | the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. |
| Asylum Seeker | a person who has left their home country as a political refugee and is seeking asylum (safety) spontaneously in another country. |
| Emigration | the act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad. |
| Humanitarian | concerned with or seeking to promote human welfare. |
| Refugee | a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. |
| Resettlement | the settlement of people in a different place. "Australia's post-war resettlement of European refugees" |
| Migration | It is the movement of a person or a group of people, to settle in another place |
| Pull Factor | something that attracts people to go and live in a particular place |
| Indentured Servant | a person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another over a period of time |
| Colonization | The action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area. |
| Voluntary | done, given, or acting of one's own free will. |
| Genocide | the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group, religion or nation. |
| Trafficker | a person who deals or trades in something illegal. |
| Urbanization | the act or fact of urbanizing, or taking on the characteristics of a city |
| Repatriation | to bring or send back (a person, especially a prisoner of war, a refugee, etc.) to his or her country or land of citizenship. |
| Slave | a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant. |
| Push Factor | a negative aspect or condition that motivates one to leave, esp. in one's country, or region |
| Sojourner | A sojourner is a person who resides temporarily in a place. |
| Famine | extreme and general scarcity of food, as in a country or a large geographical area. |
| Temporary Resident | refers to a person who seeks temporary entry to the United States for a specific purpose. |
| Brain drain | the emigration of highly trained or intelligent people from a particular country. |
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