Immigration Vocabulary

To enter and settle in a foreign country

• immigrate

• assimilate

• prejudice

• heritage

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

• refugee

• heritage

• emigrate

• pull factors

Reasons why one might leave their country

• oppression

• prejudice

• pull factors

• push factors

Reasons that draws or attracts people to another location

• pull factors

• urbanization

• famine

• heritage

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

• refugees

• pull factors

• prejudice

• famine

Extreme shortage of food

• pull factors

• famine

• prejudice

• immigrate

The social process of absorbing one cultural group into another

• assimilation

• oppression

• refugee

• pull factors

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

• immigrate

• push factors

• refugee

• heritage

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

• prejudice

• immigrate

• refugee

• heritage

to leave or escape quickly

• prejudice

• flee

• famine

• assimilation