FAC Immigration

Front

something that causes you to want to live in a new place: something that attacks you to this new place

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pull factor

Front

the things that make you so miserable about where you are currently living, that you become willing to move somewhere else

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push factors

Front

a cheaply made, overcrowded, rundown apartment building

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tenement

Front

an area outside of a city in which single family houses are placed on yards with grass and trees

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suburb

Front

a person who moves permanently to a foreign country

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immigrant

Front

a very poor area of a city in which people of the same race or religion live, or a part of a society or group that is in some way set apart

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ghetto

Front

to become a part, or to make someone become a part, of a group, country, society, etc.

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assimilate

Front

the belief that various immigrant groups will abandon their individual cultures and eventually fully assimilate into the predominant society

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Melting Pot Theory

Front

the movement of 10's of thousands of African Americans from the rural south to urban centers in the northeast and midwest

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Great Migration

Front

A section of New York City, in the Northeastern part of Manhattan which was the destination of many African Americans in the 1910s and 1920s when they left the south.

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Harlem