Flocabulary: Migration

True or False: People have only been migrating for the last 2000 years.

• True

• False

Vandi was born in Sierra Leone and moved to the US permanently at age six. Vandi is a(n) ________.

• immigrant to the US and an emigrant from Sierra Leone

• emigrant from the US and an immigrant to Sierra Leone

• immigrant to both the US and Sierra Leone

• refugee and a migrant from the US

Vandi’s family left Sierra Leone because of war. The war was a(n) ________.

• political pull factor

• environmental push factor

• political push factor

• environmental pull factor

Which of the following could be a pull factor?

• a destructive earthquake in Haiti

• a strong education system in South Korea

• a lack of jobs in Greece

• a large number of refugees from Rwanda

Which of the following is a false statement?

• Voluntary migration can be very difficult.

• Many Native Americans were forced to migrate in the 1800s.

• There are no refugees in the world today.

• Many US immigrants passed through the immigration station on Ellis Island.

Natalie left Bosnia in 1993. At the time, the country was at war and she faced discrimination due to her ethnicity. Based on this information, Natalie was a(n) ________.

• immigrant to Bosnia

• Serbian emigrant

• seasonal migrant

• refugee

Which of the following is an example of forced migration?

• Africans brought to the US as slaves

• A family moving to the US from Mexico in search of work

• Europeans establishing colonies in the New World

• People leaving Benin for better farming conditions

The Trail of Tears was a(n) ________.

• path many immigrants took across the Atlantic

• forced migration of Irish-Americans in the 1900s

• forced migration of the Cherokee nation

• path people took when they did not pass inspection at Ellis Island

Between 1892 and 1954, ________ was a sign of welcome to many immigrants to the US.

• the Golden Gate Bridge

• the Washington Monument

• the Sears Tower

• the Statue of Liberty

Which of the following is an example of seasonal migration?

• refugees who fled Russia due to religious persecution

• a man who moves to California every summer to harvest crops and lives in Mexico through the winter

• a child who lived in a tenement building until he was 18 and then moved to a farm

• a woman who moved inland after a hurricane