Migration Vocabulary

3. The migrant has chosen to move, usually for economic reasons, though sometimes for environmental reasons.
8. The migrant has been compelled to move by cultural or environmental factors.
9. An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration.
10. Maximum limits on the number of people who could immigrate to the United States during a one year period
12. Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee
13. Migration FROM a location.
14. The difference between the number of immigrants (people coming to a country) and the number of emigrants (people leaving a country)

1. Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an international border
2. Transfer of money by workers to people in the country from which they emigrated
4. Something that causes people to move out of their present location.
5. A permanent move to a new location
6. A change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produces demographic transition.
7. Someone who has been forced to migrate to another country to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights, or other disasters
9. Migration TO a location
11. Something that causes people to move to a new location.