APHG - Chapter 3 Key Issue 3 Vocabulary

Push Factor

Something that induces people to move out of their present location

Pull Factor

Something that induces people to move into a new location

Refugee

Someone who has been forced to migrate to another country to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights, or other disasters and cannot return due to fear of persecution because of race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion.

Internally Displaced Person (IDP)

Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an international border

Asylum Seeker

someone who has migrated to another country in hope of being recognized as a refugee.

Floodplain

an area subject to flooding during a specific number of years, based on historical trends

Desertification

deterioration of land to a desertlike condition typically due to human actions

Intervening Obstacle

an environmental or political feature that hinders migration

Step Migration

the process of moving from one place to another in a series of stages

Remittance

the transfer of money by workers to people in the country from which they emigrated