Geography Keywords 5.1-5.3

Internal migration

Relocation within the country of origin

International migration

Relocation to another country

Emigrants

People who leave a country

Immigrants

People who enter a country

Labour migrants

People who move to another country to work

International students

Moving to another country to finish your Education (And return to the country of Origin)

Refugees

Someone who is fleeing because of war or they are persecuted

Family migrants

People that migrate to be with their family or start a family

Family reunification

Bringing over family members of a migrant who left them before

Family formation

The bringing over of a partner from country of origin by a single migrant

Aspirations

Strong desire to achieve something

Chain migration

Migrant helping other migrants migrate

Migration network

The Network of relationships between migrants

Capabilities

What you are able to do

Asylum seeker

People asking for asylum, seeking citizenship in another country

Social reasons

Motivation is in restoring family relations, to be with them, to be reunited wit your family, partner seeking etc.

Flourishing

Doing very well

Relocate

To move to another area/region to produce/live

Prosperous

Succesfull

Expats

Western people that work abroad for a certain time \ \

MEDC’s

More Economically Developed Countries

Xenophobia

Fear of Foreigners / Immigrants

Area of Origin

Area whre the imigrants come from

Remittances

money that labour migrants send to the areas of origin

social stratification

the division of society into groups from high to low

Brain drain

higher educated people leave a country to find a higher salary and better work elsewhere.

Brain gain

Migration of highly skilled people can then lead to a brain gain through the transfer of new knowledge and innovation to the countries of origin.

Return migration

people returning to the area of origin Prosperity

Destination area

the area where the migrants go to.

First generation

Migrants born and raised abroad

Multicultural society

In the country there are then various groups with different cultures who live together

Acculturation

Procces in which in which contact with another culture change the existing culture

Segregation

the (spatial) separation of groups of people whereby migrants often live in a concentrated area.

Integration

Migrants take over cultural elements from the destination country.

Residence Permit

a document or card required in some regions, allowing a foreign national to reside in a country for a fixed or indefinite length of time.