KBAT Migration Study Guide

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Brain drain/gain

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The loss of trained or educated people to the lure of work in another-often richer-country.

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Chain migration

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People move to a location since others from their community have previously migrated there.

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Circulation

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Repetitive movements that recur on a regular basis.

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Diaspora

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the places where people settled and established communities far from their ancestral homelands, people settled far from their ancestral homelands, the movement or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland.

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Emigration/Immigration

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Movement away from a location/Movement to a location.

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Forced/Voluntary migration

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When people are compelled to leave their homes by extreme push factors.

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Guest worker/Time contract workers

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Migrants who travel to a new country as temporary laborers.

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Internal migration

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A migration within a country, usually is less disruptive.

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International migration

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A migration from one country to another.

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Migration stream

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Constant flows of migrants (usually ethnic) from the same origin to the same destination.