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WorksheetsMIGRATION Vocabulary
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 12mins
An evironmental or political feature that hinders migration.
Intervening obstacle
immigration
net migration
chain migration
During migration, an opportunity that is closer to you which makes an opportunity farther away less likely to travel to
counterurbanization
Quota
intervening opportunity
Intervening obstacle
positive conditions in a place that may attract people to a new place.
push factors
pull factors
net migration
mobility
negative circumstances, events, or conditions present where people live, which entice or attract them to move elsewhere.
push factors
pull factors
migration transition model
forced migration
movement made by people by choice.
voluntary migration
forced migration
immigration
Ravenstein's law
to leave a place
emigration
immigration
forced migration
net migration
to come to a place
immigration
emmigration
mobility
refugee
difference between the number of immigrants and the number of emigrants throughout the year.
net migration
migration transition model
conterurbanization
quota
A type of movement in which people do not choose to relocate, but do so under the threat of violence.
forced migration
voluntary migration
migration transition model
asylum seeker
Population movement from cities to suburbs
Counter urbanization
Urbanization
Suburbanization
Desertification
The process whereby a society changes from a referral to an urban way of life. It refers also to the gradual increase in the population in the proportion of people living in urban areas.
Voluntary migration
Suburbanization
Quota
Urbanization
A net migration from urban to rural areas
Urbanization
Counterurbanization
Suburbanization
Immigration
Claim that the type of migration that occurs within a country depends on how developed it is or what type of society it is.
Demographic transition model
Population pyramid
Migration transition model
Chain migration
A fixed minimum or maximum number of a particular group of people allowed to do something such as immigrants to enter a country, workers to undertake a job, or students to enroll for a course.
Mobility
quota
Remittance
Intervening obstacle
People forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion
Asylum seeker
Guest worker
Remittance
Refugee
A person with temporary permission to work in another country.
Mobility
Remittance
Guest worker
Asylum seeker
Foreign nationals who reside in a country illegally.
Foreign migration
Unauthorized emigrant
Quota
Unauthorized immigrant
Immigrant who is seeking international protection
Quota
Refugee
Asylum seeker
Intervening opportunity
When one family migrate to a new country and the rest of the family followed shortly after
Desertification
Chain migration
Unauthorized immigrants
Refugee
The movement of people from one defined area to another within a country
Internal migration
External migration
Suburbanization
Counterurbanization
The process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture.
Ravenstein’s law
Desertification
Mobility
Suburbanization
Ability to move between different levels in society or employment
Mobility
Guest worker
Migration transition model
Immigration
Money sent to a family or friends in the country left behind
Chain migration
Desertification
Refugee
Remittance
Set of 5 “ laws“ that describes the patterns of behavior associated with human migration
Population density
Ravenstein’s law
Newton’s law
Migration transition model
