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Migration
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Asylum Seeker | someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as refugee |
| Brain Drain | Large-scale emigration by talented people |
| Chain Migration | Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there. (kinship links) Networks of relatives and friends. |
| Circular Migration | The temporary movement of a migrant worker between home and host countries to seek employment |
| Circulation | short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis |
| counterurbanization | Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries |
| Emigration | Migration from a location (EXIT) |
| forced migration | permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors |
| Guest worker | Workers who migrate to the more developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern and eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of higher-paying jobs |
| Immigration | Migration to a new location (INTO) |
| Internally displaced person (IDP) | Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an international border |
| Internal migration | permanent movement within a particular country |
| International migration | permanent movement from one country to another |
| Interregional migration | Permanent movement from one region of a county to another |
| Intervening obstacle | an environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration |
| Intraregional migration | Permanent movement within one region of a country |
| Human migration | involving a permanent move to a new location |
| Mobility | All types of movement from one location to another. |
| Net migration | The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration. |
| Pull factor | A factor that induces people to move to a new location. |
| Push factor | A factor that induces people to leave old residences. |
| Quotes | In reference to migration, laws that place maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year |
| Refugees | people who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationally, membership in a social group, or political opinion |
| Remittances | money migrants send back to family and friends in their home countries, often in cash, forming an important part of economy in many poorer countries. |
| Step migration | migration that follows a path of a series of stages or steps towards a final destination |
| Transhumance | The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures. |
| transnational migration | a process of movement and settlement across international borders in which individuals maintain or build multiple networks of connection to their country of origin while at the same time settling in a new country |
| Unauthorized immigrants | People who enter a country without proper documents |
| Voluntary migration | Permanent movement undertaken by choice |
| Xenophbia | A strong Dislike of people who practice another culture (fear of foreigners) |
| Friction of distance | A concept that states that the longer a journey is, the more time, effort, and cost it will involve |
| Intervening opportunity | an occurrence that causes migrants to pause their journey by choice |
| Human trafficking | defined by the United Nations as the recruitment, transportation, harboring, or receipt of persons by improper means such as force, abduction, fraud, or coercion. |
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