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Forced migration: The often violent and coerced M
movement of a person or people away from their
Migratory lifestyle: A lifestyle that includes habitually
home or home region
moving from place to place, especially in search of
H seasonal work

Harvest: Gather a crop as a harvest Multicultural: Relating to or containing several
cultural or ethnic groups within a society
Host nation: The country which accepts the
migrants or to which the immigrants migrate N
Huguenots: French Protestants of the 16th and
Nazi: A member and supporter of the totalitarian,
17th centuries who were largely Calvinist, and
murderous and intolerant movement led by Adolf
who suff ered severe persecution at the hands of
Hitler in the mid 20th century in Germany
the Catholic majority leading to many thousands
emigrating from France P
I Pendulum migration: Name for the regular journeys
of a population from their place of residence to their
Immigration: The action of coming to live
place of work and back
permanently in a foreign country
Periodic crop failure: A seasonal and inevitable
Impelled migration: A type of migration where
failure of crops to yield suffi cient food to maintain a
people are forced out of where they live by
community or to provide a surplus to sell
unfavourable circumstances such as genocide and
Personnel: People employed in an organization or
warfare
engaged in an organized undertaking
Intercontinental: Relating to or travelling between
Phenomenon: A fact or situation that is observed to
continents
exist or happen
Internal migration: The movement of people from
Posting: An appointment to a job, especially one
one defi ned area to another within a country
abroad or in the armed forces
Interstate migration: The movement of people from
Prevalence: The fact or condition of being prevalent
one state or territory of usual residence to another
or common
within a country
Professional: A person engaged or qualifi ed in a
Intra-continental: Being within a particular
profession
continent
Province: A principal administrative division of a
J country or empire
Jewish: Relating to, associated with, or denoting R
the community of Jews or the religion of Judaism
Racism: Prejudice, discrimination or antagonism
L directed against someone of a diff erent race based

Labour dynamics: Changes in jobs that take place as on the belief that one’s own race is superior
well as entries into and departures from economic Residential: Designed for people to live in
activity aff ected by appointments, separations and Return migration: The voluntary or involuntary return
the establishment and closure of self-employment of travellers and migrants to their place of origin
activities
S
Land bridge: A connection between two land
masses, especially a prehistoric one that allowed Seasonal migration: The periodic movement of a
humans and animals to colonize new territory population from one region or climate to another
before being cut off by the sea in accordance with the yearly cycle of weather and
Liveability: The degree to which something is temperature changes that aff ect the agricultural
suitable for living in harvest and related industries

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