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Immigration: Migration Patterns, Motives, Impacts, and Integration

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Summary

Immigration describes people moving across national borders to live in a country where they are not usual residents or do not hold nationality. This lesson introduces the terminology, distinguishes permanent immigration from short-term travel, and surveys global migration patterns.

Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country where they intend to settle as permanent residents, or where they do not possess nationality. People who cross a border are called immigrants or migrants from the destination country's perspective. From the country they leave, they are emigrants or outmigrants.

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How do immigrant and emigrant differ?
A person is an immigrant from the destination country's perspective and an emigrant from the country they leave.
What are push and pull factors?
Push factors encourage people to leave; pull factors attract them to a destination.
How does an economic migrant differ from a refugee?
An economic migrant seeks work or improved circumstances; a refugee flees persecution.
What is ethnic attrition?
Descendants of migrants stop identifying with their ancestors' nationality or ethnicity.
What is a compositional effect in immigration research?
A change in population composition can shift measured averages without showing individual-level changes.

Quiz questions

  1. How do economic migrants and refugees differ in the definitions used here?Answer: Economic migrants seek work or improved circumstances; refugees flee persecution.
  2. A population's median income falls after immigrants with incomes below its previous median arrive. What does this compositional effect establish?Answer: The population median changed, but that alone does not show any individual's income changed.
  3. What did a US study estimate about a one-percentage-point increase in the immigrant share of the population aged 11–64?Answer: It raised native 11–17-year-olds' chance of completing 12 years of schooling by 0.3 percentage points.
  4. What did hiring-study meta-analyses in North America and Europe report about equivalent minority candidates?Answer: They needed around 50% more applications to receive an interview invitation.

Based on the Wikipedia article Immigration, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Adapted into a summary, flashcards and quizzes.

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