| A | B |
| Urban | City |
| Refugee | A person who flees their country to another, usually due to war or disaster |
| Asylum Seeker | A person who asks another country to protect them from their own country |
| Internally Displaced | People who are forced to leave their homes, and move to another part of the country |
| Enslaved | People who are captured then sold into servitude |
| Step Migration | When you move, but pause, then move again |
| Chain Migration | When family members move, and others follow after them |
| Internal Migration | Simply moving within your country |
| Transnational Migration | Moving to another country |
| Transhumance Migration | Nomadic Herders moving their animals across national borders |
| Guest Worker | People from another country who temporarily live in a country just to work |
| Remittance | Money you send back to your family if you are a migrant |
| Brain Drain | When nations lose their most educated, skilled people to migration to another country |
| Distance Decay | As the distance you move increases, the less contact you will have with those you left behind |