Migration and Asylum Concepts

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Chain Migration

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Some come first, earn money and send home, more to come or move to where a large cluster of similar people are found

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Counter-Urbanization

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People move from urban areas to rural areas

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Emigration

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Migration from a location

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Ethnic Enclaves

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Neighborhoods filled with certain ethnic groups

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Forced Migration

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Human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate.

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Immigration

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Migration to a new location

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Internally Displaced

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A refugee within his or her own country

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Interregional Migration

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Permanent movement from one region of a country to another.

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Intervening Obstacle

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An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration.

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Intraregional Migration

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Permanent movement within one region of a country.