Migration Vocabulary Quiz

What term is used to describe the movement of people into a country to live there permanently?

• Emigration

• Immigration

• Assimilate

• Naturalize

What does it mean to assimilate into a new culture?

• To leave one's country

• To build a shanty

• To adopt the ways of the new culture

• To discriminate against others

What is a tenement?

• A large, luxurious house

• A small, cramped apartment building

• A type of boat used for immigration

• A government office for naturalization

What does it mean to naturalize?

• To plant trees and flowers in a new country

• To become a citizen of a country where you were not born

• To move back to your country of origin

• To learn a new language

What is a shanty?

• A type of dance

• A large, well-built house

• A poorly built shack or hut

• A document required for immigration

What does it mean to emigrate?

• To move into a new country

• To move out of one's country to live in another

• To visit another country temporarily

• To build a new home

What does it mean to persecute someone?

• To welcome them into your home

• To treat someone unfairly or cruelly because of their race, religion, or beliefs

• To help someone assimilate into a new culture

• To offer someone a job

What is a nativist?

• Someone who moves to a new country

• Someone who believes that born citizens should have more rights than immigrants

• A person who helps immigrants assimilate

• A type of lawyer who helps with immigration

What does it mean to discriminate?

• To treat someone differently because of their race, religion, or other characteristics

• To help someone learn a new language

• To move to a new country

• To build a tenement

Which term describes the act of leaving one's country to live in another due to fear of persecution or for better opportunities?

• Naturalization

• Assimilation

• Immigration

• Emigration