Migration Vocab

3. The migrant has been compelled to move by cultural or environmental factors.
4. I emigrated from the United States.
6. The difference between the number of immigrants (people coming to a country) and the number of emigrants (people leaving a country).
9. Migration TO a location
10. Maximum limits on the number of people who could immigrate to the United States during a one year period.
11. Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an international border.
12. An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration.
13. The migrant has chosen to move, usually for economic reasons, though sometimes for environmental reasons.

1. Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee.
2. 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.
5. A permanent move to a new location.
7. Transfer of money by workers to people in the country from which they emigrated.
8. 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