Mid term "Migration" Flashcards
T/F: Almost all undocumented (illegal) immigrants in the US arrive by crossing the US/ Mexico border.
False
T/F: the term warehousing means to house refugees in old warehouses
False, warehousing means: the practice of keeping refugees in protracted situations of restricted mobility, enforced idleness, and dependency—their lives on indefinite hold—in violation of their basic rights under the 1951 UN Refugee Convention.
The term for money being sent back home by migrants living in the US is called____
remittance
What are ways of entering the US legally?
- meeting country quotas
- family reunification
-fiance visa - people with extraordinary skills
- people who meet demand in the workforce due to special skills
- temporary agricultural workers
What are the illegal ways of entry?
- people who cross borders by land illegally
- come by boat illegally
- overstaying travel visa
- people with temporary protected status
- students in the US who finish school don’t go back
Who was the president who started building a “wall’ on the Mexico border before trump?
Clinton
T/F Most refugees get sent back to rich countries?
False
What is a refugee?
Someone who crosses an international border for fear of prosecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular group, political opinion, or war.
What are the types of migration in the US?
- voluntary into the US
- reluctant relocation (not forced but not voluntary)
- forced: no choice is given
What are the push/pull factors?
-economic
-social
-environmental
-political
T/F: A large % of immigrants are undocumented.
True
What does TPS mean?
Temporary protection status
What are examples of intervening factors?
-money
-geographical issues
-distance decay
-attitudes
-boarder control
What is an IDP?
Internally displaced person
The combined total number of refugees and IDPs is estimated to be___
75 million