Name That Word
Moving from one place to another to live.
What is migration?
A family moves because they hope to find better-paying jobs.
What is a pull factor?
Being free to make your own decisions.
What is autonomy?
A worker performs difficult labor while another person unfairly profits from that worker's effort.
What is exploitation?
Which two words are closely connected because one can cause the other?
Segregation → ______
What is discrimination?
A large number of people leaving a place or region.
Answer: What is an exodus?
A family leaves because they experience racial violence.
What is a push factor?
Being under the control or domination of another person or group.
What is subjugation?
A qualified citizen attempts to register to vote but discriminatory practices prevent them from doing so.
What is disenfranchisement?
Complete the sequence:
Oppression → Aspiration → ______
What is migration?
The ability to continue despite hardship, obstacles, or challenges.
What is resilience?
Someone moves because they want greater educational opportunities for their children.
What is a pull factor?
Being freed from oppression or control.
What is liberation?
A family experiences threats because of their race and is targeted repeatedly.
What is persecution?
Why might aspiration come before migration?
People may first imagine or desire a better life before deciding to leave their current home.
A strong hope, goal, or desire to achieve something better.
What is aspiration?
A person leaves because discriminatory laws limit their rights and opportunities.
What is a push factor?
Which word is closest to the opposite of subjugation?
A. Oppression
B. Exploitation
C. Autonomy
D. Persecution
What is C. Autonomy?
Two racial groups are required to attend different schools and use different public facilities.
What is segregation?
Explain how oppression can lead to migration.
Oppression can create unsafe or unfair living conditions that push people to leave in search of greater freedom and opportunity.
Preventing people from exercising their right to vote.
What is disenfranchisement?
A family leaves because of segregation but chooses a particular city because of job opportunities. Identify both factors.
Segregation = push factor; job opportunities = pull factor.
Explain why subjugation and liberation belong on opposite ends of a continuum.
Subjugation involves being controlled or oppressed, while liberation involves gaining freedom from that control.
A family encounters discrimination and hardship after relocating but continues working, finding housing, and creating a new life.
What is resilience?
Explain how migration can be connected to both oppression and aspiration.
Oppression can push people away from unfair or dangerous conditions, while aspiration can pull them toward greater freedom, safety, jobs, education, and opportunity.