Immigration Vocabulary

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To enter and settle in a foreign country

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immigrate

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To LEAVE your own country and go and live in another country

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emigrate

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Reasons why one might leave their country: oppression, prejudice, pull factors, push factors

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push factors

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Reasons that draws or attracts people to another location

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pull factors

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A negative attitude toward an entire category of people, often an ethnic or racial minority

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prejudice

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Extreme shortage of food

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famine

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The social process of absorbing one cultural group into another

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assimilation

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Qualities, traditions, or features of life that have been passed on from one generation to another

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heritage

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A person forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster

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refugee

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to leave or escape quickly

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flee