Types of Migration
This term describes a move within the same country, such as from New York to California.
What is Internal Migration?
A factor, like political oppression, that encourages people to move out of their current location.
What is a push factor?
This is the general term for a migration where the migrant has no choice but to leave.
What is forced migration?
The loss of young, educated, and skilled workers from a sending country is known by this negative term.
What is brain drain?
The difference between the number of immigrants and the number of emigrants.
what is net migration?
This is the process where a migrant stops at a sequence of less distant destinations, like moving from a farm to a village, then a town, and finally a city.
What is Step Migration?
The promise of a better climate or more available jobs in a new location is an example of this type of factor.
what is a pull factor
A person who has been forced to flee their home but has not crossed an international border.
What is an IDP Internally Displaced Person?
This is a positive economic effect on the sending country's economy due to money sent home by migrants.
What are remittances?
The movement of money by foreign workers back to their home country.
What is a remittance?
This migration type is categorized by a person moving to a new country primarily for employment, often with an expectation of returning home.
What is Guest Worker Migration?
what is a push factor
A type of environmental forced migration caused by long-term changes, such as rising sea levels or desertification.
What are climate refugees?
A common social effect in a receiving country where migrants adopt cultural traits from the new society.
What is assimilation or acculturation?
A policy where a country sets an annual limit on the number of people who can legally enter the country.
What is a quota?
This type of migration is marked by a permanent move to a new country.
What is trans-national migration
This term describes the phenomenon where a good job offer in a city en route to a planned destination causes a migrant to stop and settle early.
What is an intervening opportunity?
Migrants awaiting a decision about their status from the authorities in the country they're trying to get into because they're not recognized as a refugee.
What is an asylum seeker?
A demographic effect often seen in the sending community, where the population pyramid becomes inverted due to the loss of young adults.
What is an aging population?
This term describes migrating into a country without the correct "papers"
What is unauthorized migration?
This describes the seasonal movement of livestock and the people who herd them between mountain pastures and lowland areas.
What is transhumance?
Me when I try to move to the US but their visa restrictions are insane and they won't let me in with authorization...
What is an intervening obstacle?
This international document governs the legal protection and rights of a person who has fled their country due to persecution.
What is the 1951 Refugee Convention or the Geneva Convention?
This describes the positive economic effect in the receiving country resulting from an increase in the labor supply, often filling jobs others won't take.
What is "cheap labor"?
This concept explains that as countries advance along the DTM, they shift from being net senders of emigrants to net receivers of immigrants.
Hint: Migration T________
What is migration transition?