SOC 1300 Study Guide - Final Guide: Emergency Quota Act, Eastern Hemisphere, Bracero Program

• School: University of Houston
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1300
• Professor: Dorsey Patricia

Document Summary

Migration: process by which individuals move from one place to another. Immigration: act of arriving and settling in another. Social structure: how the decision to emigrate and the consequence of immigration are the result of individual motivation and personalities and bundles of forces economically and politically. Receiving countries: destination countries, those countries to which migrants go. Brain drain: the departure of well-educated and skilled citizens to other countries where they can use their skills more productively and make more money. Diaspora: members of the countries" people settled far from their homeland. Emigration and immigration policies: the set of rules and regulations established by each country with regards to the movement of people across the border. Legal permanent residents: legal immigrants who are authorized to live and work in the country permanently but are not citizens. Foreign-born citizen: naturalized citizens who are chiefly children who acquire citizenship when their parents naturalize or who are adopted by citizen parents.