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Migration

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Asylum Seeker   someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as refugee  
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Brain Drain   Large-scale emigration by talented people  
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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.  
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Circular Migration   The temporary movement of a migrant worker between home and host countries to seek employment  
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Circulation   short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis  
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counterurbanization   Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries  
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Emigration   Migration from a location (EXIT)  
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forced migration   permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors  
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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  
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Immigration   Migration to a new location (INTO)  
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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  
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Internal migration   permanent movement within a particular country  
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International migration   permanent movement from one country to another  
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Interregional migration   Permanent movement from one region of a county to another  
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Intervening obstacle   an environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration  
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Intraregional migration   Permanent movement within one region of a country  
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Human migration   involving a permanent move to a new location  
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Mobility   All types of movement from one location to another.  
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Net migration   The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration.  
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Pull factor   A factor that induces people to move to a new location.  
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Push factor   A factor that induces people to leave old residences.  
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Quotes   In reference to migration, laws that place maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year  
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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  
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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.  
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Step migration   migration that follows a path of a series of stages or steps towards a final destination  
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Transhumance   The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures.  
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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  
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Unauthorized immigrants   People who enter a country without proper documents  
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Voluntary migration   Permanent movement undertaken by choice  
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Xenophbia   A strong Dislike of people who practice another culture (fear of foreigners)  
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Friction of distance   A concept that states that the longer a journey is, the more time, effort, and cost it will involve  
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Intervening opportunity   an occurrence that causes migrants to pause their journey by choice  
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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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