Migration Vocabulary

Movement in which people relocate in response to perceived opportunity, not because they are forced to move.

• Urbanization
• Voluntary migration
• Forced migration
• Counter-urbanization

Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries

• urbanization

• counter urbanization

• international migration

• forced migration

Permanent move from one country to another country

• International migrtion
• Net out-migration
• Counter-urbanization
• Net in-migration

Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee

• asylum seeker

• guest worker

• unauthorized immigrant

• refugee

Positive conditions and perceptions that effectively attract people to new locales from other areas

• Push factor
• Pull factor
• Brain Drain
• Deportation

Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality are already in that location

• internal migration
• chain migration
• interregional migration
• quota

Permanent movement within the same region of a country

• International migration
• Interregional migration
• Intraregional migration
• Urbanization

The number of people who are allowed to immigrate due to laws passed by the government

• deportation
• chain migration
• brain drain
• quota

Negative conditions and perceptions that induce people to leave their home and move to a new locale

• brain drain
• deportation
• push factor
• pull factor

Human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate to a different country

• Internal migration
• Voluntary migration
• Forced migration
• Chain migration