Migration Vocabulary Assessment (playlist)

when the majority of educated or skilled workers leave an area to pursue better opportunities elsewhere

• chain migration

• voluntary migration

• brain drain

• brain migration

A guest worker is...

• when people migrate not because the want to but because they have no other choice

• a person forced to flee their home who remains in their home country

• a favorable circumstance that causes people to stop a planned migration to take advantage of the prospect

• a legal immigrant who is allowed into the country to work, usually for a relatively short time period

a person seeking residence in a country outside of their own because they fleeing persecution

• Asylum seeker

• Internally displaced person

• Emigration

• Guest worker

A factor that draws people to a place

• intervening obstacle

• push factor

• pull factor

• migration factor

moving across a border into another country

• immigration

• transnational migration

• voluntary migration

• push factor

Transhumance is...

• moving across a border into another country

• person moving into a country without authorization (also know as illegal immigrants)

• people choosing to migrate (not being forced)

• moving herds of animals to the highlands in the summer and into the low lands in the winter

migration to a far away place that takes place in stages

• refugee

• forced migration

• chain migration

• step migration

a favorable circumstance that causes people to stop a planned migration to take advantage of the prospect

• intervening opportunity

• intervening obstacle

• forced migration

• refugee

Emigration is...

• a person seeking residence in a country outside of their own because they fleeing persecution

• a series of migrations within a group that begins with one person who through contact with the group, pulls people to migrate to the same area.

• coming into an area as part of a permanent move

• leaving an area as part of a permanent move

coming into an area as part of a permanent move

• Immigration

• Emigration

• Asylum seeker

• Intervening obstacle