Migration Vocabulary
The movement of people from one place to another to live there permanently.
What is migration?
Moving from Texas to South Carolina is this type of migration.
What is internal migration?
A reason that pushes people to leave a place.
What is a push factor?
The First Wave (1607-1830) mainly involved people arriving during this.
What is colonial settlement?
The name for anti-immigrant feelings in the United States.
What is nativism?
A person forced to leave their country because of war, persecution, or danger.
What is a refugee?
Moving from Mexico to the United States is this type of migration.
What is international migration?
A farmer moves because a long drought destroyed crops.
What is an environmental factor?
Many Irish immigrants in the Second Wave came because of this event.
What is the potato famine?
To dislike or hold prejudice against people from other countries.
What is Xenophobia?
Migration that occurs when people follow earlier migrants to the same place.
What is chain migration?
The term for people entering a country to live.
What is immigration?
A family moves to a city because of many new job opportunities.
What is an economic factor?
German immigrants in the Second Wave were often searching for these two things.
What are religious freedom and farmland?
This 1882 law limited Chinese immigration to the U.S.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Something that blocks a migrant from reaching their intended destination.
What is an intervening obstacle?
The term for people leaving their country to move somewhere else.
What is emigration?
People leave their country because of war and violence.
What is a political factor?
The Third Wave (1890-1920s) mainly brought immigrants from this part of the world.
What is Southern and Eastern Europe?
A law limiting the number of immigrants allowed into a country.
What is a quota?
The difference between the number of immigrants and emigrants in a place
What is net migration?
Movement within the same region is called this, while movement from one region of a country to another is interregional.
What is intraregional migration?
Someone moves to be closer to their extended family.
What is a social factor?
The Fourth Wave (1965-today) has mostly included immigrants from these two regions.
What are Latin America and Asia?
Someone who enters a country illegally or overstays a visa.
What is an undocumented immigrant?