- asylum
- legal protection extended by one country to citizens of another.
- chain migration
- the process of sequential migration from the same community of origin.
- circular migration
- repeated pattern of movement between locations, usually associated with work.
- cultural hybridity
- the exchange and innovation within cultures that is a product of migration and globalization.
- diaspora
- the movement and dispersal of large ethnic groups from their homelands because of warfare, institutionalized violence, or opportunity (usually education or employment).
- displacement
- migration due to persecution, conflict, or violence; involves refugees and those seeking asylum.
- environmental migration
- displacement caused by natural disasters, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, or droughts.
- epidemic
- a disease that spreads more than expected among a given group of people.
- forced labor
- the recruitment, transportation, transfer, and/or harboring of persons by means of threat or use of force or coercion for the purpose of financial exploitation.
- forced migration
- migration due to persecution, conflict, or violence; involves refugees and those seeking asylum.
- human trafficking
- the recruitment, transportation, transfer, and/or harboring of persons by means of threat or use of force or coercion for the purpose of exploitation. A form of modern slavery.
- immigrant
- an individual who moves permanently from one country to another.
- internal migration
- the domestic movement of people from rural to urban areas.
- labor migration
- the movement of people for the purpose of employment and/or economic stability.
- migrant
- a person who moves from their place of origin to reestablish a household.
- migration
- movement from one place to another that reestablishes a household, whether temporarily or permanently.
- modern slavery
- the recruitment, transportation, transfer, and/or harboring of persons by means of threat or use of force or coercion for the purpose of exploitation.
- pandemic
- an outbreak of a disease over a broad area.
- peasants
- a rural, subsistence-based agricultural class with limited landholdings.
- postcolonialism
- enduring politico-economic relationships between former colonizers and their former colonies that continue to have negative effects on the former colonies after independence.
- remittances
- transfers of money from workers back to their home countries, usually for their families.
- transnationalism
- the construction of social, economic, and political networks that originate in one country and then cross or transcend nation-state boundaries.