Immigration Terms

Match:

• push factor

• something that attracts someone to a new country

• pull factor

• conditions that force people to leave their homeland and move to another country

• assimilation

• the process of becoming a part of another country

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• prejudice

• a person who wants to limit immigration and preserve the US for native-born Americans

• nativist

• acts or attitudes based on prejudice; deny someone something based on prejudice

• discrimination

• oversimplified idea of a particular type of person

• xenophobia

• fear of foreigners; undue mistrust

• stereotype

• unfavorable opinion about people who are of a different religion, race, or nationality

any person who leaves his/her homeland to move to another country

• immigrant

• ethnic group

• ethnic neighborhood

• Ellis Island

• Angel Island

a population made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent

• immigrant

• ethnic group

• ethnic neighborhood

• Ellis Island

• Angel Island

East Coast processing station for immigrants (mostly from Europe); In New York Harbor

• immigrant

• ethnic group

• ethnic neighborhood

• Ellis Island

• Angel Island

West Coast processing station for immigrants (mostly from Asia); In San Francisco

• immigrant

• ethnic group

• ethnic neighborhood

• Ellis Island

• Angel Island

a place where people of a similar culture have settled

• immigrant

• ethnic group

• ethnic neighborhood

• Ellis Island

• Angel Island

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Groups:

(a) Push Factors

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(b) Pull Factors

• conditions that force people to leave their homeland

• mostly positive

• lower taxes

• food insecurity

• mostly negative

• land limits

• jobs

• high taxes

• conditions that attract people to live in a new country
• freedoms of religion and speech

• religious persecution

• own their own land

• food security

• no jobs / lack of money

• peace

• war