Migration Flashcards
(13 cards)
Definition of Refugees
Refugees are people who have been forced to flee their country and are unable to return to persecution, conflict or changes to the environment. (Natural disaster)
Definition of asylum seekers
Are people who have fled their country but have not yet had their application to be recognised as a refugee accepted.
Definition of economic migrant
Are people who have moved to another country to work. usually voluntary
Definition of political migrant
Are people who are forced to migrate due to war, civil war or state politics.
Definition of environmental migrants
people who are migrate due to poor environment
Definition of step migrants
people who are heading to a final destination but stop at locations along the way
Definition of Voluntary migrants
Migrants who choose to migrate
Definition of Emigrants
people who leave a country
Definition of Immigrants
are people who enter a country
Definition of Transnational migration
when they cross an international border and continue connections back home
Definition of Interregional
when people are migrating in a country but between regions
Definition of intraregional
moving within a region