economic migration
Moving for work
Economic migration is movement from one place to another in search of better employment or financial opportunity.
Unlike refugees fleeing persecution, economic migrants relocate by choice to improve their circumstances: Economic migration from rural areas has swelled the cities.
The term sometimes carries dismissive connotations, implying migrants lack legitimate grounds for asylum.
- brain drainEmigration of skilled workers
- remittancesPayments sent abroad
- job opportunitiesAvailable positions for hire
- povertySevere lack of resources
- emigrationLeaving homeland permanently
low wage jobs · wage disparity · better life · work permits · labor shortages · guest workers · diaspora · family separation · globalization · wages · unemployment · homeland · immigrant · opportunity · undocumented · exploitation · journey · visa
- migrationimmigrants, refugees, immigration, emigration, migrants
- economic historystock market crash, Industrial Revolution, trade routes, Great Depression, gold standard
- Pacific MigrationPacific Islanders, family reunification, migratory patterns, seasonal workers, skilled workers
- demographicspopulation density, population growth, age distribution, population, gender ratio
- immigrationimmigrant, immigrants, visa, refugee, citizenship
- workforceworkers, employee, employees, labor force, employer
economic migrationrefugee flight
Displacement from homeland danger
forced displacement · asylum seeking · political exile · war refugee · human trafficking
economic migrationstaying put
Remaining in place
rootedness · sedentarism · immobility · settledness · homesteading