Unit Two Part Two: Migration Vocabulary

Question 1

Brain Drain

Answer 1

Large-scale emigration by talented people

Question 2

Chain Migration

Answer 2

Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there

Question 3

Circulation

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Counterurbanization

Answer 4

Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries.

Question 5

Emigration

Answer 5

Migration from a location.

Question 6

Floodplain

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Forced migration

Answer 7

Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors.

Question 8

Guest worker

Answer 8

Workers who migrate to the more developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of higher-paying jobs.

Question 9

Immigration

Answer 9

Migration to a new location.

Question 10

Internal Migration

Answer 10

Permanent movement within a particular country.

Question 11

International migration

Answer 11

Permanent movement from one country to another.

Question 12

Intrerregional migration

Answer 12

Permanent movement from one region of a country to another.

Question 13

Intervening obstacle

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Intraregional migration

Answer 14

Permanent movement within one region of a country.

Question 15

Migration

Answer 15

A form of relocation diffusion involving a permanent move to a new location.

Question 16

Migration transition

Answer 16

A change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition.

Question 17

Mobility

Answer 17

All types of movement from one location to another.

Question 18

Net migration

Answer 18

The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration.

Question 19

Pull factor

Answer 19

A factor that induces people to move to a new location.

Question 20

Push factor

Answer 20

A factor that induces people to leave old residences.

Question 21

Quotas

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Refugees

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Unauthorized/ Undocumented immigrants

Answer 23

People who enter a country without proper documents.

Question 24

Voluntary migration

Answer 24

Permanent movement undertaken by choice.

Question 25

Asylum seeker

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Internally displaced person (IDP)

Answer 26

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

Question 27

transnational migration

Answer 27

a process of movement and settlement across international borders in which individuals maintain or build multiple networks of connection to their country of origin while at the same time settling in a new country

Question 28

Circular Migration

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Step Migration

Answer 29

Migration that follows a path of a series of stages or steps towards a final destination

Question 30

Census

Answer 30

A complete enumeration of a population.

Question 31

Environmental Degregation

Answer 31

Depleting of resources because they are used faster than they can be replenished.

Question 32

Remittances

Answer 32

Money migrants send back to family and friends in their home countries, often in cash, forming an important part of the economy in many poorer countries