Immigration

1. Migration--A series of shorter, less extreme migrations from a person's place of origin to final destination—such as moving from a farm, to a village, to a town, and finally to a city.
3. A person who flees his or her native land to escape persecution or danger.
6. The international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle or reside there.
7. Migration--The temporary and usually repetitive movement of a migrant worker between home and host areas, typically for the purpose of employment.
8. Migration--The movement of people from one defined area to another within a country.
10. Displaced Person--Someone who is forced to flee his or her home but who remains within his or her country's borders. They are often referred to as refugees, although they do not fall within the legal definitions of a refugee.
11. Migration--A process where relatives who have previously migrated to a new country sponsor family to migrate to the same country. It entails a tendency by foreigners from a certain city or region to migrate to the same areas as others from their city or region
12. Legal permission to live in a country granted in special cases to people fleeing danger or persecution in the homelands.

2. The act of leaving one's resident country with the intent to settle elsewhere.
4. Migration--When a person or group of people immigrate to a country from another country.
5. Migration--The involuntary or coerced movement of a person or people away from their home or home region, resulting from a variety of external causes including natural disasters, violence, and persecution.
9. Migration--Migration based on one's free will and initiative.