Migration Vocabulary
Forced to move away from one's home country.
What is emigration?
The decision to move to a country
What is immigrate?
Changes in the environment are referred to as this.
What are environmental push factors
This is the definition of migration stream.
What is the the constant flow of immigrants from one country to another?
The country to which a refugee relocates
What is a host country?
This push factor encompasses war and violence
What is a political push factor?
Events or conditions that attract people to a location like economic opportunity and stable and peaceful living conditions
What are pull factors?
When immigrants send money back to their families in their home countries
What is a remittance?
When a part of a family moves to be closer to another part of the family it is know as this.
What is a family pull factor
Shelter or protection from danger granted by a country to someone forced to leave their home country (spelling counts)
What is an Asylum?
The definition of Brain Drain.
What is when a country loses well-education people because of emigration, specifically jobs in other countries
A person who has moved across international borders in search of protection and filed a claim for asylum with the host country’s government.
What is an asylum seeker?
The definition of IDP and what it stands for.
What is an Internally Displaced Person - A person who is forcibly uprooted within their country but who has not crossed an international border. IDPs may be forced from their home as a result of armed conflict, human rights violations, or natural or human-made disasters, yet remain in their country.
This is what the UNHCR stands for.
What is United Nations Refugee Agency?
OR
United Nations High Commision on Refugees
This is the definition of quality of life pull factor
What is the belief that people can create better lives for themselves and their families