Types of Migration

Vocabulary flashcards on key migration terms including forced, voluntary, and international migration.

Forced Migration

Movement of people away from their home or region due to coercion, threats to life/livelihood, or violent conditions (e.g., war, persecution, natural disasters).

Voluntary Migration

Movement of people by their own free choice, usually to seek better opportunities, lifestyle, education, or employment.

International Migration

Movement of people across international borders from one country to settle in another.

National/internal migrant

Movement of people from one religion or place to another country(e.g.,Movement from a rural town to a city).

Regular migrant

Movement of people that occurs through legal ,recognised,and authorised channels (e.g.,using valid visas ,work permits, or passport).

Irregular migrant

Movement of people that takes places outside the legal and regular framework of the original, transit,or destination country (e.g., overstaying a visa or unauthorised border crossing ).

Economic migrant

A person who leaves their home country primarily to improve their standards of living financial situation, or job prospects elsewhere