Individuals and Societies 9 

Crook 
Human Geography 
 
Why do people migrate? 
What are the effects of migration? 
How does migration affect communities? 
 
Geographers study human populations: how they grow and decline, why they move, how they 
are shaped by, and shape, their environments. Let’s explore the dynamic of MIGRATION 
 
Please use the website and videos below to find definitions of the following terms. Please 
complete the chart below, with good examples for each definition. 
 
● Eshooltoday 
● https://refugeesmigrants.un.org/definitions 
● https://www.iom.int/key-migration-terms 
 
 
Migration KEY TERMS 
 
DEFINITIONS  EXAMPLES and ILLUSTRATIONS 
Try to write the definitions in your own words so that you  For each term, please find one contemporary example (from 
show your understanding clearly  the news, etc), and add it here. You need to have a mix of 
written examples and pictures. 
 
Immigration - ​the place at an airport or country's  Connecticut estimates 200,000 impacted by 
border where government checks the documents  immigration change by news 1130 
of people entering that country, or border.  
 
 

 
 
 
Migration - ​The movement from one place to  I moved to Tanzania from America   
another.  
Immigrant - ​A person who comes to live  For example, My family moved from America 
permanently in another country.    to live permanently over here in dar.  
 
 
Refugee - ​A person who is forced to leave in their  Hundreds of thousands of people, mainly 
own country, this happens becuase they escape  Muslims, are living in refugee camps after 
from war, persecution, and natural disasters. 
 
fleeing violent persecution in neighboring 
  Myanmar. 
Foreign Minister Abdul Momen told the BBC 
that Bangladesh was unable to keep bearing 
the economic burden but did not say exactly 
how the policy would change. 
 
Emigration - ​This is where someone leaves their  For example, this is our family we are leaving 
own country to live or to stay in another place for  our own country which is America to live in a 
example like moving abroad.  
place which is here in dar es salaam 
 
 
Emigrant - ​Emigration is when you are leaving  for example people in America a long time 
your country or place of residence then you go and  ago maybe 1 year ago there were immigrants 
settle elsewhere.  
 
coming into America  
Rural-Urban migration - ​This the act where  for example, our helpers at our house came 
people move from the country-side to the city  from the countryside to work at our place for 
however they still move in the same country.  
better income.  
 
 
Internal Migration - t​his is when people move  for example when my family moved house. 
from one area to another in the same country or 
within the country  
 
 
International migration - ​International migration  this is when we pass the Kenyan border and 
happens when people pass state borders and stay  go stay in Mombasa with my cousins   
in the host state for a small length of time.  
 
 
Forced migration - ​Forced Migration is a broad  for example, your work permit is expired and 
term that applies to the movements of refugees  you and your family have to move out.  
and internally displaced people 
 
 
Remittance - ​The act of sending money in  for example, when my brother needs money 
payment or as a gift to someone in the same place  in America my dad sends money to him, by 
or it can also by crossing the border of different 
using the bank. 
counties.