MIGRATION VOCABULARY
Emigration - leaving a place
Immigration - going to a place
Sojourner - lives in a country for a limited amount of time, with a specific goal, and fully intend
to return home
Expatriate - noncitizen worker who lives in a country for an indeterminate period of time
Refugee - seeking safe haven, home is no longer safe because of natural disaster or war
Asylee - seeking refuge in another country for political reasons
Citizenship can be acquired in three ways
- Birth
- Blood
- Naturalization
A WORLD OF MIGRATION
● Demographic shifts, both in countries receiving immigrants and countries losing
emigrants
● Without immigration, most developed countries would see a drop in population and
challenges to retirement and economic programs
● Perceived challenges to nation-state cultural identity and values
IMMIGRATION AND NATIONAL IDENTITY (examples)
Israel
- Anyone who is Jewish or of Jewish descent can immigrate to Israel
- 60% of world’s 15 million Jews
- Residence construction, job creation, language training, education
- Ethiopian Jews face difficulties with assimilation and discrimination
- Lots of Russian Jews - mostly ethnic, not religious
About 25% of the population is non-Jewish, mostly Arab. Some have proposed limiting
immigration. Issue is the character of Israel as a Jewish state
Europe
- Schengen Agreement
- Recent European immigration is from refugees
- Need immigration to address aging population
- Large amount of Muslim immigration - raises questions of women’s rights, public safety,
freedom of thought, national identity
- Growing us vs them mentality
- Increased pressure to assimilate as anti-immigrant sentiment rises
Brazil
- Rich immigration history, melting pot
Emigration - leaving a place
Immigration - going to a place
Sojourner - lives in a country for a limited amount of time, with a specific goal, and fully intend
to return home
Expatriate - noncitizen worker who lives in a country for an indeterminate period of time
Refugee - seeking safe haven, home is no longer safe because of natural disaster or war
Asylee - seeking refuge in another country for political reasons
Citizenship can be acquired in three ways
- Birth
- Blood
- Naturalization
A WORLD OF MIGRATION
● Demographic shifts, both in countries receiving immigrants and countries losing
emigrants
● Without immigration, most developed countries would see a drop in population and
challenges to retirement and economic programs
● Perceived challenges to nation-state cultural identity and values
IMMIGRATION AND NATIONAL IDENTITY (examples)
Israel
- Anyone who is Jewish or of Jewish descent can immigrate to Israel
- 60% of world’s 15 million Jews
- Residence construction, job creation, language training, education
- Ethiopian Jews face difficulties with assimilation and discrimination
- Lots of Russian Jews - mostly ethnic, not religious
About 25% of the population is non-Jewish, mostly Arab. Some have proposed limiting
immigration. Issue is the character of Israel as a Jewish state
Europe
- Schengen Agreement
- Recent European immigration is from refugees
- Need immigration to address aging population
- Large amount of Muslim immigration - raises questions of women’s rights, public safety,
freedom of thought, national identity
- Growing us vs them mentality
- Increased pressure to assimilate as anti-immigrant sentiment rises
Brazil
- Rich immigration history, melting pot
