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Vocabulary
What is Migration?
Why do people migrate?
Where do people migrate?
How do governments effect migration?
100

a person who leaves their own country in order to settle permanently in another.

What is an emigrant?

100

the movement of an individual or group of people from one region of a country to another region of the same country.

What is Internal Migration?

100
People that migrate and leave an area because of environmental or economic reasons.
What is a refugee?
100

The difference between the number of immigrants and the number of emigrants in a place in a year.

What is net migration rate?

100
The governmentally backed process of sending immigrants back to their original residence.
What is deportation?
200


Migrating into another country, usually for permanent residence


What is immigration?

200

The immigrants entering or leaving a place during a given period of time.

Migration Flow

200
reasons that people want to migrate such as job opportunities
What are pull factors?
200

escaping violence and persecution, seeking better employment and quality of life 

Primary Reason for migration

200
A makeshift town for immigrants, common in poor areas outside of cities such as Rio. These areas are commonly segmented off by the local government.
What is a shantytown?
300
People tha played a major role in the early mapping of the world.
What are explorers?
300
Migration within a region.
What is interregional migration?
300
When a migrant chooses a destination and communicates with family and friends at home, creating a positive perception of the place for them.
What is chain migration?
300
The reason that many people migrated from germany to the west during the 1940s and 50s.
What is conflict and war?
300
Sometimes governmentally backed persecution and killing of specific ethnic groups.
What is genocide?
400

the movement or mass migration of people from rural areas to more urban areas such as cities

What is Urbanization?

400
Migration by choice.
What is Voluntary migration?
400
A reason a migrant is often pulled to places where family and friends have already found success
What are kinship links?
400

Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, China, India

What are the main source countries for the US?

400
governmental immigration policy that restricts immigration on the basis of criminal records and other background issues.
What is selective immigration?
500

someone who is forced to leave their home but who remains within their country's borders

Internally Displaced Person (IDP)

500

Migration that occurs across borders of countries all over the world.

What is Transnational migration?

500
Things and events like volcanoe eruptions, floods, and potato fungus infections.
What are evironmental events?
500

 the condition where more people are located within a given space than is considered tolerable from a safety and health perspective

Overcrowding

500
Governmental regulations on immigration and immigration policy.
What are immigration quotas?