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Fuzzy and Blue!
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This term best describes people from other countries who enter the United States to start new lives.
What is an immigrant?
100
Something that encourages people to leave a place behind.
What is a push factor?
100
An unusually long period in which little or no rain falls.
What is a drought?
100
The loss of well educated people such as doctors and engineers to another country.
What is brain drain?
100
Holidays that have been introduced to American life from immigrants.
What is … St. Patrick's Day, Chinese New Year, or Cinco de Mayo?
200
This a person who moves from their home country to another one.
What is an emigrant?
200
A devastating plant disease struck this country, causing the destruction of their most important crop, the potato.
What is Ireland?
200
Something that encourages people to move to a new place.
What is a pull factor?
200
An example of a political push factor.
What is … War, persecution. Fear of being jailed for disagreeing with a dictator. i.e. Fidel Castro
200
Valdas Adamkus worked hard to bring democracy to this country, which was his home country.
What is Lithuania?
300
The constant flow of migrants from one country to another country.
What is a migration stream?
300
Someone who seeks safety by going to another country. They may be escaping political unrest or war.
What is a refugee?
300
An example of how immigration affects the United States economically (jobs).
What is … Immigrants work low paying jobs that native born workers don't want. Some are highly skilled, such as doctors, professors, and programmers. Some start new businesses or work as athletes or artists.
300
An example of an environmental push factor.
What is … Drought Irish people faced starvation when a fungus destroyed their potato crop. People from the Ukraine area were unsafe when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded.
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One of the countries (other than the USA) that are attracting migration streams from around the world.
What is … Spain or Australia?
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The Lost Boys of the Sudan walked hundreds of miles in search of a safe place, eventually finding one in this country.
What is Kenya?
400
In the last 20 years, this region has sent more immigrants to the United States than any other region.
What is Latin America?
400
An example of how immigration affects the United States culturally (neighborhoods, foods, and holidays).
What is … Immigrant neighborhoods like Chinatown and Little Italy enrich American cities. Immigrant foods such as pizza, bagels, and tacos become popular. People from many backgrounds celebrate St. Patrick's Day, Chinese New Year, and Cinco de Mayo.
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Example of economic impacts on a country that has been left behind by emigrants.
What is … Home countries lose the training and talent of skilled emigrants. Many immigrants send money back to their families. Some immigrants go to school or work and then return to their homeland to share their new skills and experience.
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The two biggest push factors that drive migration streams.
What are poverty and conflict?
500
This is the city that some of the Lost Boys of Sudan ended up living in after they came to the United States.
What is Boston?
500
This country attracts the most immigrants, with more than 20 million in the last 20 years.
What is the United States?
500
A payment of money sent by an immigrant to a relative in his or her home country.
What is a remittance?
500
The elimination of a group of people based on race, religion, or some other factor.
What is genocide?
500
The spreading or mixing of cultures.
What is diffusion?