The document discusses different types of human population movements. It defines and compares key terms:
- Immigration refers to permanently moving to another country, while migration is a more general term that can be temporary.
- Asylum seekers apply for protection in a new country, and may become refugees if granted status. Refugees are forced to flee threats in their home country.
- Migrants usually move for better opportunities, while refugees flee threats and conflict. Refugees lack legal protections if they enter countries illegally.
- The main similarity between immigrants and refugees is that they both relocate from their home country, and may become citizens of their new country.
- Internally displaced persons (
2. What's the difference between Immigration and
Migration?
• The difference between Immigration and Migration is insignificant.
These words are related because they both mean the movement of
people between the countries
●Migration is a general term describing the movement of people
from one area to another. Migration is a word that means
moving to a place momentary and it is used when
you are talking about waves of movement of people
between countries.
3. • Immigration is a word that means moving to a country
permanently. It is the movement into a country when you
want better living conditions.
• While immigration usually
refers to an individual or a
family ,migration refers to
the movement of a much
larger population.
• While immigration refers to
people ,the word migration
can also be used in the
context of animals and birds.
4. What is the difference between asylum
seekers and refugees?
• Asylum seeker is a person who has left their home
country spontaneously or as a political refugee. That
human enters another country and applies for asylum.A
person becomes an asylum seeker by making a formal
application for the right to remain in another country and
keeps that status until the application has been
concluded. The asylum seeker may be recognised as a
refugee and given refugee status and they receive
protection, work and care from the country.
5. • Refugee is a person who has been forced to leave their
country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural
disaster and unable to return there owing to serious and
indiscriminate threats to life, physical integrity or freedom resulting
from generalized violence or events seriously disturbing public order.
Often the terms ‘refugee’ and
‘asylum seeker’ are used
interchangeably. But they
each have explicit legal
definitions that distinguish
one from the other, and
prescribe specific obligations
for governments and the
international community.
6. What is the difference between migrants
and refugees
• Migrants usually move from their country ,home or city because of
war, natural disasters or for searching a place that offers better life
conditions. They have provide shelter ,work, care, education and
rights in every country because of the Geneva convention,
People who are migrants are crossing the country
borders ,living in other places and working legal.
While the refugees cross the country borders
illegally. They have shelter and food only if they
have legal status, but if they can not have food and
shelter from the country in which they went to
We already have the definition of “refugees” .Now here
the definition of ‘’migrant’’
7. Similarities between immigrants and
refugees
• Immigrant is a person who moves from his current location
into a destination country where he is not a native of or
where he does not possess citizenship in order to settle or
reside there, especially as a permanent resident or a
naturalized citizen, or to take-up employment as a migrant
worker or temporarily as a foreign worker.
The similarities between refugees and
immigrants are that they both move from their
country for some reason. When they move to
another country both of them can have
citizenship from the country in which they moved
to.
8. What is the difference between refugees
and internally displaced persons
• An internally displaced person (IDP) is someone who is forced to flee his
or her home but who remains within his or her country's borders. They
are often referred to as refugees, although they do not fall within the
legal definitions of a refugee.
While both may have fled for similar reasons, IDPs stay
within their own country and remain under the protection
of its government, they don’t have home. And that
government is the reason for their displacement. While
refugees are going to different countries, they are
protected from the law and the fault is not their of the
situation they are in.