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Asylum Seeker |
Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee brain |
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Brain Drain |
Large-scale emigration by talented people |
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Chain Migration |
Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or memebers of the same nationality previously migrated there |
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Circular Migration |
The temporary movement of a migrant worker between home and host countries to seek employment. |
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Counter urbanization |
Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries |
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Emigration |
Permanent or semi-permanent movement from a location |
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Floodplain |
The area subject to flooding during a given number of years according to historical trends |
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Guest workers |
Workers who migrate to the more developed countries of northern and Western Europe,usually from southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of higher paying jobs |
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Immigration |
Permanent or semi-permanent movement to a new location |
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Internal migration |
Permanent movement within a particular country |
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Internally displaced person |
Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an international border |
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International migration |
Permanent movement from one country to another |
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Interregional migration |
Permanent movement from one region of a country to another |
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Intervening obstacle |
An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration |
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Intraregional Migration |
Permanent movement within one region of a country |
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Migration |
Form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location |
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Migration Transition |
Change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition |
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Net migration |
The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration |
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Pull Factors |
Factors that induce people to move to a new location |
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Push factors |
Factors that induce people to leave old residences |
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Quota |
In reference to migration, a law that places maximum limits on the number of people who can immigrate to a country each year |
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Refugees |
People who are 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 |
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Remittance |
Transfer of money by workers to people in the country from which they emigrated |
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Unauthorized Immigrants |
People who enter a country without proper documents |