15248809718 | Asylum | an institution for the care of children, elderly people, etc.; a place of safety | 0 | |
15248824278 | brain drain/gain | large scale emigration/immigration by talented/educated people | 1 | |
15248832658 | Chain Migration | migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there | 2 | |
15248882163 | Distance Decay | The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. | 3 | |
15248887605 | Emigration | movement of individuals out of an area | 4 | |
15248891490 | Immigration | Movement of individuals into a population | 5 | |
15248907839 | ethnic enclave | a small area occupied by a distinctive minority culture | 6 | |
15248931074 | Forced migration | Human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate. | 7 | |
15248985107 | Forward capital | capital city positioned in actually or potentially contested territory usually near an international border, it confirms the states determination to maintain its presence in the region in contention. | 8 | |
15249013012 | Guest worker | a foreign laborer living and working temporarily in another country | 9 | |
15249070440 | immigrant | a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there | 10 | |
15249074023 | emigrant | A person who leaves a country or region to live elsewhere. | 11 | |
15249093766 | internal displaced person | People who have been displaced within their own countries and do not cross international borders as they flee. | 12 | |
15249113043 | intervening obstacle | An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration. | 13 | |
15249294355 | Lee's model of migration | A migration model that introduces a refinement to push and pull factors. It includes intervening obstacles that are both real and perceived. | 14 | |
15249315161 | Migration | Form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location. | 15 | |
15249330470 | net migration | The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration. | 16 | |
15249411666 | push-pull factors | Conditions that draw people to another location (pull factors) or cause people to leave their homelands and migrate to another region (push factors) | 17 | |
15249423235 | Ravenstein's Laws of Migration | Laws of migration established in the 1980s based on studies carried out in the U.K. | 18 | |
15249431883 | Quota | A limit placed on the quantities of a product that can be imported | 19 | |
15249436189 | Refugee | A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster | 20 | |
15249450402 | step migration | Migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village and later to a town and city | 21 | |
15249460577 | Transnational migration | regular movement of a person between two or more countries resulting in a new cultural identity | 22 | |
15249477996 | Voluntary Migration | movement in which people relocate in response to perceived opportunity; not forced. | 23 | |
15249483179 | visa | an endorsement made in a passport that allows the bearer to enter the country issuing it | 24 | |
15249554120 | xenophobia | a fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers | 25 |
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