Migration Vocabulary
This is the place that a migrant is going to.
What is the destination?
This is a reason why you would want to leave your origin.
What is a push factor?
When a person migrates from one country to another, it is called this type of migration.
What is international migration?
This is the formula for net migration.
What is In Migrants - Out Migrants?
This is one reason why migration is challenging.
What is:
Trusting strangers
Costs money
Can be dangerous
etc.
This is another term for an out migrant.
What is an emigrant?
Economic opportunity and the hope for a better life are these type of migration factors.
What are pull factors?
This is a common reason for seasonal migration.
What is temporary agricultural work?
What are "snowbirds?"
When a net migration is a negative number, we know this about a population.
What is there are more people leaving a population than coming to it?
Forced migrants often have to do this.
What is save their own lives?
This is another term for someone who does not migrate.
What is a stayer or a non migrant?
When educated people emigrate from a developing country it is called this.
What is "brain drain?"
This is one reason why rural to urban migration happens.
What is looking for work?
If the in migration is 10,000 people, and the out migration is 3,000 people, the net migration is this.
What is 7,000?
This type of forced migrant is often a victim of persecution.
What is a refugee?
Immigrants are these people.
What is someone who arrives in another country?
The difference between people of the same community who choose to migrate or not is called this.
What is migration selectivity?
Rural to urban migration is happening the most in these two areas of the world.
What is Africa and eastern Asia?
This is why we calculate net migration rate.
Forced migration can come from war, violence, or this.
What are man made or natural disasters?
What is spatial mobility?
Between a person who is 30 years old with no children, and someone who is 55 years old with grandchildren, this is the person who is most likely to migrate.
Who is the first person?
This is why chain migration happens.
What is having family/friends/ people of the same culture in a destination as a pull factor?
The net migration rate of a population in -3 people per 1000. If I'm a leader of this country I know this net migration rate is this.
What is manageable?
This is always the goal of the United Nations when it comes to refugees.
What is repatriation?