Chapter 3 Vocabulary

Question 1

Asylum seeker

Answer 1

Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee.

Question 2

Brain Drain

Answer 2

Large-scale emigration by talented people.

Question 3

Circular Migration

Answer 3

The temporary movement of a migrant worker between home and host countries to seek employment.

Question 4

Circulation

Answer 4

Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis.

Question 5

Counter-urbanization

Answer 5

Net migration from urban to rural areas in developed countries.

Question 6

Emigration

Answer 6

Permanent movement of people from a location.

Question 7

Family-based migration

Answer 7

Migration of people to a specific location because relatives previously migrated there.

Question 8

Forced migration

Answer 8

Permanent movement of people compelled by political or environmental factors.

Question 9

Floodplain

Answer 9

The area subject to flooding during a given number of years, according to historical trends.

Question 10

Guest worker

Answer 10

A term once used for a worker in search of a higher-paying job who migrated to the developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa.

Question 11

Immigration

Answer 11

Permanent movement of people to a new location.

Question 12

Internal migration

Answer 12

Permanent movement of people within a particular country.

Question 13

Migration transition

Answer 13

A change in the pattern of movement of people in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produces the demographic transition.

Question 13

Internally displaced person

Answer 13

Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but who has not migrated across an international border.

Question 14

Mobility

Answer 14

All types of movements of people between locations.

Question 15

Net Migration

Answer 15

The difference in a given place between the level of immigration and the level of emigration.

Question 16

International migration

Answer 16

Permanent movement of people from one country to another.

Question 17

Interregional migration

Answer 17

Permanent movement of people from one region of a country to another.

Question 18

Intervening obstacle

Answer 18

An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration.

Question 18

Intraregional migration

Answer 18

Permanent relocation of people within one region of a country.

Question 19

Migration

Answer 19

Permanent relocation of people within one region of a country.

Question 20

Remittance

Answer 20

Transfer of money by migrant workers from the country into which they immigrated to people in the country from which they emigrated.

Question 21

Step migration

Answer 21

Movement of people that follows a path of a series of stages or steps toward a final destination.

Question 22

Quota

Answer 22

In reference to migration, a law that places maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year.

Question 23

Refugees

Answer 23

Someone who is forced to migrate from their home country and who cannot return to that home country for fear of persecution because of race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion.