Question | Answer |
Migration | the movement of humans, animals, or things from one place to another |
Forced Migration | a mass movement of people leave their homes against their will |
Mass Migration | the movement of large numbers of people out of an area over a fairly short time period (for example, the flow of people out Europe after the world wars) |
Migrant Worker | a worker who travels from one country to another for seasonal or even longer periods of employment |
Point System | a method used by governments to access a potential immigrant's sustainability uses different measures such as family ties |
Preferred Treatment | people who have a family ties established in a country are given are given preference over immigrants who do not have family ties |
Refugee Status | a level of recognition given to people who claim on entering a country; after government officials hear their case, a decision is made whether to grant or not to grant refugee status |
Squatter Settlement | a makeshift community, often on public lands in or around large cities, where people gather and live in poor conditions |
First Migrations | occurred in Central Africa |
North American Migrations | Europeans 1820-1920
Japanese 1870-1910
Slaves from Africa taken to Americas 1500-1850
Chinese migrate to America from 1860-1950 |
Two Greatest Push Factors | Drought, War |
Push Factors | Drought
War
Poverty
Overcrowded
Religious Persecution
Natural Disasters
Protest
Fear of loss of wealth |
Social Push Factors | war (Kosovo) |
Social Pull Factors | family (after war), better education |
Economic Push factors | jobs (lack of employment)
(migrant workers) |
Economic Pull Factors | jobs (better opportunities, pay) |
Political Push Factors | persecution because of religion , persecution because of skin colour, nationality, and language |
Political Pull Factors | same religion, multicultural, accepting, equal rights, same language, having rights and freedom |
Immigrate | to come a country |
Emigrate | to leave a country |
Culture | is way of life; it is shared by a group of people |
Two Important Parts Of Culture | Language and religion |
Melting Pot | encouragement of a country to change your ethnic background for the country's culture |
Mosaic | encouragement of a country to keep their ethnic background to have a diverse country |
Assimilation | the result of one country changing to fit, or be more like, another |
Cultural Diffusion | the peaceful spreading of cultural ideas from one group to another |
Mainstream Population | the major cultural group in a society; in Ontario, the mainstream population has been white and Protestant, but that is changing |
Racism | hostile discrimination against people based on their ethnicity |
Xenophobia | fear of strangers; particularly, a mistrust of people who look and act differently |