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Geography
Migration
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Brain Drain | a loss of trained professional personnel to another company, nation, etc., that offers greater opportunity |
| Emigration | To leave one country or region to settle in another |
| Forced Migration | when you are forced to migrate |
| Guest Workers | (blank) |
| Immigration | To enter and settle in a country or region to which one is not native |
| Immigration Quotas | (blank) |
| INS | immigration and naturalization service |
| Internal Migration | permanant movement within the same country |
| International Migration | movement to a different country |
| Interregional Migration | movement from one region to another |
| Intraregional Migration | movement within one region |
| Migration Transtition | changes in a society comparable to those in the demographic transition |
| Net Migration | (blank) |
| Pull Factor | induces people to move in |
| Push Factor | induces people to move out |
| Quota | proportional part or share of a fixed total amount or quantity |
| Refugees | people who have been forced to migrate from their home country with fear |
| Undocumented Immigrants | (blank) |