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Geography
Migration
Word | Definition |
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Brain Drain | a loss of trained professional personnel to another company, nation, etc., that offers greater opportunity |
Emigration | To leave one country or region to settle in another |
Forced Migration | when you are forced to migrate |
Guest Workers | (blank) |
Immigration | To enter and settle in a country or region to which one is not native |
Immigration Quotas | (blank) |
INS | immigration and naturalization service |
Internal Migration | permanant movement within the same country |
International Migration | movement to a different country |
Interregional Migration | movement from one region to another |
Intraregional Migration | movement within one region |
Migration Transtition | changes in a society comparable to those in the demographic transition |
Net Migration | (blank) |
Pull Factor | induces people to move in |
Push Factor | induces people to move out |
Quota | proportional part or share of a fixed total amount or quantity |
Refugees | people who have been forced to migrate from their home country with fear |
Undocumented Immigrants | (blank) |