Migration Key Terms

• Migration


  When people move from place to place to take up residence
• Immigration


  People arriving as migrants
• Emigration


  People leaving to find a better place to live
• Economic migration


  When people migrate to find work
• Forced migration


  When people are forced to migrate against their will
• Step migration


  When people migrate to one place then move to another
• Chain migration


  When people migrating from one region are joined by others from the same region who follow them
• Murdrum


  A law introduced by the Normans that imposed a heavy fine on an area where a murderer was believed to be unless they were given up or found in five days
• Antisemitism


  Prejudice or discrimination against Jewish people
• Blood Libel


  The false accusation started in 1144 that Jewish people ritualistically mudered Christian children to celebrate the death of Jesus
• Artisan


  Hand-made products
• Craft guild


  Medieval trade unions
• Alien


  Someone born outside the King's realm
• Letter of Denization


  Issued by the King, anyone granted one would become "fully English"
• Alien Tax Register


  After 1440, all foreign-born people had to pay this tax
• The Low Countries


  Belgium and Holland
• Net exports


  Value of exports is greater than imports
• Capital investments


  Investing money in a business to make a profit later
• Nomadic


  People who travel from place to place
• Asylum


  Protection given to someone who has come seeking safety
• Deportation


  Forceful removement of people from a country
• Non-Conformist


  A Protestant who does not belong to the Church of England
• Gunpowder Plot


  A Catholic plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605
• Indentured labourers


  Workers in forced employment, unable to leave until a period of time was over
• Moorish


  Relating to a Muslim from North Africa or Iberia (Spain and Portugal)
• Annulment


  A declaration that a marriage is no longer legal
• Monopoly


  When a company has complete control over an area of business
• Chattel Slavery


  A form of slavert in which the enslaved person is bought, becomes the "property" of the owner, and is not deemed to be human
• Multi-faith


  A society that includes many religions
• Ayahs


  Nannies from India
• East India Company


  A trading company set up with the permission of Elizabeth I to trade with India
• Royal African Company


  A trading company created in 1660 by Charles II to trade with Africa
• John Hawkins


  In the 1560s, Hawkins was the first Englishman to send a ship of captured Africans across the Atlantic and sell them in the West Indies
• Freedom of the city

  Awarded to young men after completing 7 years of an apprenticeship - Black men were forbidden from becoming apprentices
• Abolitionists

  People who campaigned to end enslavement
• Lascars

  Sailors from India
• Ghat Serang

  Local agents in India who arranged industrial work for Lascars
• Denization

  Citizenship granted by a letter from the monarch after swearing allegiance to the Crown
• Naturalisation

  Citizenship granted by an Act of Parliament
• Indigenous

  The settled people already living in a place