Vocab #3

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

Chain migration

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Circular migration

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Circulation

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Counterurbanization

Answer 6

Net migration from urban to rural in more developed countries

Question 7

Desertification

Semiarid land degradation

Answer 7

Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions such as excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting.

Question 8

Emigration

Answer 8

Migration from a location

Question 9

Floodplain

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Forced migration

Answer 10

Permanent movement, compelled by cultural or environmental factors

Question 11

Guest worker

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Immigration

Answer 12

Migration to a new location

Question 13

Internal migration

Answer 13

Permanent movement within a particular country

Question 14

Internally displaced person (IDP)

Answer 14

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

Question 15

International migration

Answer 15

Permanent movement from one country to another

Question 16

Interregional migration

Answer 16

Permanent movemen from one region of a country to another

Question 17

Intervening obstacle

Answer 17

An environmental or cultural landscape the hinders migration

Question 18

Migration

Answer 18

A form of relocation diffusion that involves a permanent move to a new location

Question 19

Migration transition

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Mobility

Answer 20

All types of movement between locations

Question 21

Net migration

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Pull factor

Answer 22

A factor that induces people to move to a new location

Question 23

Push factor

Answer 23

A factor that induces people to move out of their present location

Question 24

Quota

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Refugee

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Remittance

Answer 26

Transfer of money by workers to people in the country in which they emigrated

Question 27

Unauthorized immigrant

Answer 27

A person who enters a country without proper documents to do so

Question 28

Voluntary migration

Answer 28

Permanent movement undertaken by choice