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| Migrant | a person who moves from one place to another, especially in order to find work or better living conditions. |
| Immigrant | A person who comes to live permanently from a foreign country. |
| Emigrant | A person who leaves to live permanently in a foreign country. |
| Pull Factors | Factors that attract people to a new country; including: a new life, education, jobs, hope, land, freedom, $, etc. |
| Push Factors | Factors that force people to leave their country; including: poverty, persecution, no land, revolution, etc. |
| Asylum | Protection given by a government to someone who has left another country in order to escape being harmed |
| Refugee | A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war or persecution or a natural disaster. |
| Xenophobia | Fear of foreigners |
| Alien | In legal terms, a person who is not a citizen or native of the country in which they reside. |
| Amnesty | An official pardon granted to immigrate to a country based on protection from ideological, religious, or political persecution. |
| Citizenship | Membership in the political structure of a country. |
| Family Unification | Permission to immigrate or remain in a country based on the fact that immediate family members are citizens of that country. |
| Permanent Resident | An individual who is not a citizen but who legally resides in another nation on a permanent basis. |
| Unauthorized/Undocumented Immigrant | An individual who remains in a nation beyond the limits of their legally granted time period; person who enters a nation without permission; also often disparagingly called “illegal immigrant” or “illegal alien.” |
| Naturalization | The legal process by which citizenship is granted to a person. |
