International Borders & Migration (Types of Migrants)

movement of people from one place to another

• migration

• osmosis

• diaspora

• exodus

negative home conditions that impel the decision to migrate

• push factor

• pull factor

• migratory compulsion

• migratory invasion

positive attractions of the migration destination

• pull factor

• push factor

• migratory compulsion

• migratory repulsion

people who have been forced from their homeland usually through persecution

• refugee

• asylum seeker

• political defector

• migrant

a person seeking refuge from persecution but whose is not yet considered a refugee

• asylum seeker

• political defector

• conscientious objector

• draft dodger

a person who has abandoned their country based on a conscientious objection to policies

• political defector

• draft dodger

• environmental refugee

• political ambassador

people who left their homes because of water or food shortages, drought, flooding, etc.

• environmental refugees

• situational homelessness

• climatologists

• third worlders

someone who is forced to flee his or her home but who remains within his or her country's borders

• internally displaced person

• First World refugee

• environmental refugee

• stateless resident

refugees who leave their country by water by crowding on any type of water vessel

• boat people

• seafaring migrant

• illegal alien

• deported resident