People move from one place to another with a purpose of settling permanently or temporarily to the new location is migration. The practice of moving far from home, and search for a better life is becoming more common. Global mobility allows any one to travel any where. Migration may be internal migration or over a long distance to another country or continent. It may be voluntary or involuntary like sold in to slavery and trafficking
'immigration' plays a big part in recent days news. People risking their life and move from one country and seeking better life in another. Sadly some times they couldn't make it to shore and they are drown in the sea, dying in the boats, trucks, and containers.
Why do people migrate?
People migrate from place to place for many centuries. Some of the reasons can be classifies as Social, Economic, political or environmental.
immigrant:
Immigrant is the term used for people coming in to a country ,usually for permanent residence.
e.g. Large number of immigrant Syrians moved to Germany
migrant worker
A person who leaves his/her home country to find work in some other country. But they do not wants to stayed there permanently.
e.g.There are many migrant workers working in Tesco
social migrant
A person migrate to another area due to social reasons
e.g.Because of the controversy over The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie migrate to America
economic migrant
A person who moved to some other country to improve his/her economic situation is known as economic migrant. They are simply looking for a better life for them self, and their family
e.g. Saina came to Indonesia from Burma 3 years ago to work in a factory. She thought she could earn more, and send money home.
refugee
A person who applied for asylum and got permission to stay in the country and got refugee status under 1951 United Nations Convention relating to refugees. Mostly people left their country because of persecution, poor human rights, poverty, civil war, disasters like earth quake and hurricanes.
e.g. Srilankan Tamil people who moved to India, got refugee status. They lived there for many years.
asylum seeker
asylum seeker is a person who fled from their home country because of the danger situation there and claims as a refugee in the new country they just got in. But their claim has not yet been definitely evaluated and accepted
e.g. Eldana came to England from Eritrea, Now she is seeking refugee status in England. She is a asylum seeker.
emigration
emigration is when some one leaves their own country with the intent to settle else where.
e.g.James left England to settle in Australia with his family. There he is going to start his own restaurant
illegal immigration
People moved to different countries in a method that violates their immigration laws of the destination country. Instead of saying illegal immigrant, its good to say undocumented person or irregular migrant. It's not acceptable to say a human being is illegal is in it?.
e.g. Yesterday a boat full of irregular migrants (illegal immigrants) came to one of the Greek island Lesbos
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