Immigration and Remittances

Our topic today is immigration. Let's look at our vocabulary first. Migration: the action of moving from one country to another. A migrant is a person who moves from one place to another, especially in order to find work or better living conditions. Immigration: the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. An immigrant is a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country. To put it simply, a migrant is someone who moves temporarily to a new country while an immigrant is someone who will settle and stay permanently Refugee (political, economic): a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. Undocumented immigrant: Undocumented immigrants are foreign nationals who lack proper authorization to be in their new country. Repatriation: to return someone to their own country, sometimes against their wishes. A related word is deportation, which means transport someone to their home country Remittances: In this context, a remittance is the money that migrants or immigrants send back to their home country, usually to family. Border: The legal line that separates one country from another. Multiculturalism: the presence of, several distinct cultural or ethnic groups within a society.