Chapter 9

Diaspora

Diaspora

________: ethnic minorities that maintain strong sentimental and material links with their countries of origin while gradually adopting a new identification with the host society.

Transnationalism

________: the new tendency to retain multiple national identities.

Persons

________ granted temporary protected status: can not return to their home country without putting their lives in danger.

Asylum migration

________: international movement resulting from persecution and conflict.

Refugees

________: persons who have been forced to flee their country because of a real threat of persecution or death.

Transnational communities

________: members live between nations and may not feel much allegiance to any one nation.

Irregular migrants

________: have not fully satisfied the requirements to enter a country.

International migrants

________: people who change their country of abode.

Temporary migration

________: for work.

Asylum seekers

________: file the application for asylum.

Foreign trainees

________: admitted to acquiring particular skills through on- the- job training.

Migration systems

________: ongoing patterns of migratory exchange in which some countries and regions function as core immigration magnets and others as peripheral sending areas.

Asylum migration

international movement resulting from persecution and conflict

Refugees

persons who have been forced to flee their country because of a real threat of persecution or death

Undocumented migrants

impossible to know how many are there

Temporary migration

for work

International migrants

people who change their country of abode

Returning migrants

return to their own country

Returning ethnics

admitted by another country and become citizens almost immediately

Foreign trainees

admitted to acquiring particular skills through on-the-job training

Foreign retirees

beyond retirement age but wont become a charge to the state

Established

can reside indefinitely in the country

Highly skilled

have a preferential treatment

Asylum seekers

file the application for asylum

Persons granted temporary protected status

cannot return to their home country without putting their lives in danger

Irregular migrants

have not fully satisfied the requirements to enter a country

Migrants for family reunification

accompanying close relatives

Migration systems

ongoing patterns of migratory exchange in which some countries and regions function as core immigration magnets and others as peripheral sending areas

Neoclassical economics

migration decisions are driven by differences in economic opportunities between sending and receiving countries

New economics perspective

migration could well continue even if wage differentials between countries were eliminated

Network theory

as the numbers of international migrants increase, so do the number of social networks in operation, creating strong synergetic forces that promote additional migration

Dual labour market theory

focuses on capitalist societies chronic need for foreign labour

World systems theory

international migration is the consequence of the expansion of the capitalist economy into the developing regions of the world

Transnationalism

the new tendency to retain multiple national identities

Diaspora

ethnic minorities that maintain strong sentimental and material links with their countries of origin while gradually adopting a new identification with the host society

Transnational communities

members live between nations and may not feel much allegiance to any one nation