Types of Migration
This type of migration involves people moving from one country to another.
What is external or international migration?
Lack of jobs in a region is an example of this type of factor.
What is a push factor?
A person who leaves their home country to live in another country.
What is an emigrant?
This ethnic group is the largest immigrant population in Belize, primarily from neighboring Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.
Who are Mestizos or Central Americans?
Many Belizeans migrate to this North American country in search of better job opportunities.
What is the United States?
Seasonal movement, often by agricultural workers or nomadic groups.
What is seasonal migration?
The availability of better education in a new location is an example of this.
What is a pull factor?
A person who enters and settles in a new country.
What is an immigrant?
Belize has a growing community of immigrants from this Asian country, involved in retail and commerce.
What is China?
This Belizean city sees significant internal migration due to better access to jobs and education.
What is Belize City?
Movement within a country's borders, often from rural to urban areas.
What is internal migration?
Conflict, famine, and natural disasters are examples of these factors driving migration.
What are push factors?
A person who flees their country due to persecution, conflict, or disaster.
What is a refugee?
Mennonites migrated to Belize in the 20th century. Name one country they originally came from.
What are Germany, Russia, or Canada, Netherlands?
Migration from Belize to the U.S. and Canada has contributed to this phenomenon.
What is brain drain?
Migration due to threats like war, persecution, or natural disasters.
What is forced migration?
Economic opportunities and political stability are examples of these factors attracting migrants.
What are pull factors?
A temporary visa holder who moves for work or study.
What is a migrant worker?
This cultural group, primarily found in southern Belize, maintains strong ties to their Afro-Caribbean heritage.
Who are the Garifuna?
This international organization works with Belize to manage migration and refugee issues.
What is the International Organization for Migration (IOM)?
The term for returning to one's place of origin after migration.
What is return migration?
Belize’s relatively stable democracy and peaceful reputation in Central America serve as this type of factor.
What is a pull factor?
The term for the movement of people from cities back to rural areas.
What is Urban to Rural Migration or counter urbanization?
These people, descendants of African slaves, form a significant part of Belize’s population.
Who are the Creoles?
Belize faces challenges with irregular migration, including people crossing its borders without legal documentation. This term describes such movement.
What is undocumented migration or illegal migrants?