Sunday, October 24, 2010

Defining Terms

  • In-migration: to move into or come to live in a region or community especially as part of a large-scale and continuing movement of population; people moving into one place from another place within a nation.

  • Out-migration: to leave one region or community in order to settle in another especially as part of a large-scale and continuing movement of population; people moving out of one place to another place within a  nation.

  • Forced migration: the coerced movement of a person or persons away from their home or home region, often in a violent way.

  • Net internal migration: the number of nonimmigrants moving into or out of major countries; the difference between in-migration and out-migration.

  • Movers from abroad: movers are people who were living in a different house at the end of a period than at the beginning and on category of movers is those who have moved into an area from overseas; people coming into a nation from another country or part of the world.

  • Internally displaced person (IDP): is someone who is forced to flee their home but who, unlike a refugee, remains within their country's borders.

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