Age of Migration Flashcards

Economic shock caused by sudden rise in oil prices, commonly associated to the geopolitical and economic transformations prompted by the 1973 OPEC oil embargo, causing an Oil Boom in oil producing countries and an Oil Crisis in oil-importing countries.

A period of economic decline in the late 2000s and early 2010s, marked by financial and housing market crises, recessions, and balance of payment problems, particularly affecting Western countries.

‘Dirty, difficult and dangerous’ jobs, typically low-skilled jobs in the informal sector or in sectors with strong seasonal fluctuation, such as domestic work, farming, road repairs, construction, catering, cleaning (Münz et al. 2007) (see dual labour market theory).

2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, DC.

People’s capacity to make their own choices.

Term used for foreigners in the United States.

Going against trends. Applied to remittances, it refers to the phenomenon of migrants sending more in remittances in reaction to economic crisis or environmental shocks in origin countries (complies with new economics of labour migration).

Dislike of and prejudice against Jews.

Institutionalized system of racial segregation in South Africa (1948-1994) based on white supremacy.

Process by minority groups fully adopt the culture and identity of majority groups, implying abandonment of their ancestors’ identities and allegiances. Applies to immigrants and ethnic and religious minorities. Assimilation can be resisted through social closure, the development of ethnic enclaves and diaspora formation (see incorporation and integration).

A person who has applied for refugee status and is still awaiting a decision on her or his recognition as a refugee.

Ethnic Germans living in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, many of them migrated to Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Shantytowns (French) where many migrant workers settles in the post-WWII decades.

Manual labourer; also name of the 1942-1964 guestworker programme between Mexico and the US.

Loss of knowledge and skills because of emigration of the highly educated.