| Term | Definition |
| migrate | move from one place to another |
| internal migration | move from one place to another within a country |
| international migration | leave one country to go live in another |
| migrant | a person who moves from one place to another to find work or better living conditions |
| immigrant | a person who comes to live in a foreign country |
| emigrant | a person who leaves their own country to live in another |
| refugee | an immigrant given special permission to live in another country because of war, natural disasters or persecution |
| asylum seeker | an immigrant looking to be accepted as a refugee in another country |
| internally displaced person | a person forced to flee his or her home but who remains within his or her country's borders |
| forced migration | when someone is forced to move due to war or famine |
| individual migration | when a person moves from one country or district to another |
| organised migration | planned migration of people carried out by governments or other agencies |
| push factors | factors that force a person to move
examples -drought -famine -over-population -lack of jobs -climate change -civil war |
| pull factors | factors that attract a person to move to another country or region
examples -better jobs -better education -better standard of living -better access to services |
| barriers to migration | factors that prevent or discourage migration from occurring
examples -leaving family -cost of travel |
| globalisation | is the process whereby the world has become more interconnected |
| network factors | globalisation has introduced factors known as network factors that have influenced migration.
these factors include-
-the flee flow of information
-improved global communications
-the faster and lower cost of moving from one place to another |
| origin | source |
| multi-ethnic | culturally mixed |
| loss of well-educated people | brain drain |
