Chapter 10 - Introduction to Global Studies by John McCormick

The movement of people from one place to another, including outward movement (emigration) and inward movement (immigration).

Someone who has moved from one region of a country to another, or from one country to another.

The capacity to move, whether from one location to another, one job to another, or even one social class to another.

Problems and pressures that encourage people to leave their home region or state. The opposite of pull factors, or opportunities that draw people to a new region or state.

Someone who seeks permanent residence in another country out of fear for their personal safety if obliged to return home.

Someone who is forced to move from their home as a result of local political, economic, social or environmental disruption.

The long-term process by which immigrants linked by social networks follow pioneer immigrants from the same community or family.

The emigration of trained and talented individuals from one country to another, resulting in a loss of skills resources in the former. The obverse is a brain gain or the addition of skills resources in destination countries.

A condition under which a person does not have citizenship of a state, usually as a result of civil war.

Someone forced to leave their home as a result of disruption but who has not crossed international borders.

A military intervention prompted by human rights abuses, natural disasters, war crimes, or genocide, with a view to easing refugee-generating problems.

A document that authorizes a foreigner to enter a country, usuallyfor a specified maximum period of time, and or a specified reason, such as business, education or tourism.

The fear, rejection or exclusion of those defined as foreigners in a community or a state, closely related to racism and to nativism, or the view that the interests of natives should be favoured over those of immigrants.

Payments sent home to their families by people working outside their home states or regions.