Migration

• Migration definition


  Migration is the movement of people from one place to another
• migrant definition 


  a person who leaves 1 place for another is called a migrant
• internal migration 


  when people migrate within the same country or region
• international migration 


  when people migrate from 1 country to another
• emigrant definition 


  a person who leaves 1 country to live in another
• immigrant definition 


  a person who comes to live in 1 country from another
• economic migration 


  Moving to find work or follow a particular career path
• social migration 


  moving somewhere for a better quality of life or to be closer to family and friends
• political migration 


  moving to escape war pr political persecution
• environmental migration 


  causes include natural disaster such as floods
• Refugee/asylum definition 


  someone who feels they cannot return to their country because they might be in danger
• push factors 


  what makes someone want to leave a place (eg.war)
• pull factors 


  what attracts people to lie in a place (eg.employment)
• voluntary migration 


  when people choose to migrate
• forced migration 


  when people have to migrate
• individual migration 


  when a single person chooses to migrate for a better quality of life
• barriers to migration 


  poverty, personal reasons, visas
• consequences of migration 


  marriage and birth rates decline, facilities forced to close, recession,
• impact of migration on the place they move to


  workers, revenue, multicultural society
• organised migration 


  is the planned movement of people by the government