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21 Cards in this Set
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Migration
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Movement of people to a new area or country in order to find work or better living conditions
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International Migration
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Moving from one country to the other
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Internal Migration
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Moving within a country
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Interregional Migration
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Inter - means to travel between 2 or more regions
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Intraregional Migration
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Intra - means to travel only within 1 region
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Intervening obstacles
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Event or factor that discourages people from migrating from one place to another
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Forced Migration
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Being forced to migrate
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Voluntary Migration
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Leaving a place without being forced out
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Push Factor
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Something that forces you to leave
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Pull factor
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Something that makes you want to come
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Brain Drain
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The emigration of highly trained or intelligent people from a particular country
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Chain Migration
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Migration event in which individuals follow the migratory path of preceding friends or family to an existing community
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Counter-urbanization
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A demographic and social process whereby people move from urban areas to rural areas.
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Emigration
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Migration from a place
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Guest workers
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A person with temporary permission to work in another country
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Immigration
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Migration to a place
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Mobility
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The ability to move between different levels in society or employment
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Net migration
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The difference between the number of emigrants and the number of immigrants.
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Quotas
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A limited or fixed number or amount of people or things, in particular
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Refugees
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A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster
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Unauthorized immigrants
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Immigrants who come to a country illegally
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