economic migrant
Work-driven relocator
An economic migrant is someone who moves to another country primarily to improve their financial circumstances rather than to flee persecution or violence.
The term often carries a dismissive tone, implying the person's reasons for migrating are less legitimate than those of refugees or asylum seekers: Critics accused officials of treating all arrivals as economic migrants rather than assessing individual claims.
Paid occupation status
- remittanceFunds sent elsewhere
- workforceAll available workers
- job searchSeeking paid employment
- occupationOne's regular paid work
wages · salary · paycheck · skilled · unskilled · labor market · seasonal work · construction
Reestablishing in new place
- diasporaScattered population sharing origins
- expatriateOne living abroad permanently
- transnationalCrossing country lines
- visaTravel authorization stamp
naturalization · citizenship · border crossing · departure · arrival · homeland · host country · adaptation
Fixed assigned amount
- restrictionLimit on action
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
- detentionTemporary official holding
- undocumentedNot officially recorded
irregular · legal status · work permit · sponsorship · points system · guest worker · temporary · permanent residency
Desire for achievement
- careerLifelong occupational pursuit
- aspirationStrong desire for achievement
- upward mobilityRising social or economic status
- educationSystematic development of mind
better life · entrepreneurship · qualification · skillset · upskilling · networking · market · niche
Severe lack of resources
- escapeFlight from captivity
- subsistenceMinimal means of living
- livelihoodMeans of earning income
- struggleLabored effort against resistance
resilience · sacrifice · separation · debt · smuggler · exploitation · xenophobia · discrimination
employment
Paid occupation status
- remittanceFunds sent elsewhere
- workforceAll available workers
- job searchSeeking paid employment
occupation · wages · salary · paycheck · skilled · unskilled · labor market · seasonal work · construction · domestic work
resettlement
Reestablishing in new place
- diasporaScattered population sharing origins
- expatriateOne living abroad permanently
- transnationalCrossing country lines
visa · naturalization · citizenship · border crossing · departure · arrival · homeland · host country · adaptation · culture shock
quota
Fixed assigned amount
- restrictionLimit on action
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
- detentionTemporary official holding
undocumented · irregular · legal status · work permit · sponsorship · points system · guest worker · temporary · permanent residency · pathway
ambition
Desire for achievement
- careerLifelong occupational pursuit
- aspirationStrong desire for achievement
- upward mobilityRising social or economic status
better life · education · entrepreneurship · qualification · skillset · upskilling · networking · market · niche · potential
poverty
Severe lack of resources
- escapeFlight from captivity
- subsistenceMinimal means of living
- livelihoodMeans of earning income
struggle · resilience · sacrifice · separation · debt · smuggler · exploitation · xenophobia · discrimination · precarity
- immigrationimmigrants, visa, refugee, citizenship, asylum
- migrationimmigrants, refugees, migrants, refugee, asylum seekers
- displaced peoplerefugee, displaced, IDPs, asylum seeker, displaced persons
- emigrationemigre, political refugees, expat, asylum seekers, expatriation
- exileexile, banishment, exiled, banished, exiling
- illegal migrantsillegal alien, undocumented worker
economic migrantrefugee
Person fleeing danger abroad
asylum seeker · political refugee · war refugee · displaced person · climate refugee
economic, economy, economics, economical, economically, economist, economists, economies, econometrics