Migration

• A displaced person is someone who is on the move inside their own country, fleeing from war, violation, human rights abuses, or natural disasters.
• An asylum seeker is someone who is asking for asylum, requesting international protection in a country that is not their country of origin.
• A refugee is someone who has left their country due to a severe cause of violating their human rights.
• An illegal person is a person who is not in accordance with the legal regulations to stay in a country.
• A transmigrant is a person who is temporarily staying in a country because they are on the move to another country.
• An immigrant is a person moving into a country.
• An emigrant is a person moving out of a country.
• A migrant worker is a labour worker who leaves their country to find a job with a higher salary, and can return whenever they want.
• A political refugee is someone who has left their country in fear of prosecution because of their political beliefs.
• A war refugee is a person who leaves their country because there is a war going on.
• A seasonal worker is a person who lives and works temporarily in a different country for a short period (a season), because only then this kind of work is possible.
• A climate refugee is someone who leaves their country because of the effects of climate change: floods, cyclones, droughts, etc.
• Push factors in migration are economic, political, social, and environmental.
• Pull factors in migration are economic, political, social, and environmental.
• Net migration number is calculated by subtracting emigrants from immigrants.
• Migration flows mainly occur within regions and to countries with a higher Human Development Index (HDI).
• An older population: with elderly people not working anymore, needing a pension and good health care.
• brain gain: when highly educated migrants take on job offers in the country of destination and brain drain: when highly educated people emigrate, both for the country of origin.
• Remittances are money sent by migrant workers back to their home countries.