theme A

• Census

  An official government count of the population to find out about the changes taking place
• Emigration

  Leaving your homeland to live in another country
• Ethnic


  Someone's cultural background, i.e. Pakistani-Asian
• Immigration

  Coming to another country to live there
• Migration


  Moving between regions or countries, i.e. moving from the countryside to the city in the same country, or moving from South Africa to France
• Improved life expectancy

  More babies live to adulthood, more adults live to old age
• Increased Net Migration

  More people are moving to the UK, than are leaving the UK
• Asylum seeker


  Someone who says (s)he is a refugee, but whose claim has not yet been definitively assessed by the host government
• Commonwealth

  A voluntary organisation of independent countries, some of which were former British colonies
• Economic migrant


  A person who travels from one country or area to another in order to improve their standard of living (i.e. better paid jobs / better schools etc)