Immigration Test

(Please Dont Write on Test)

Match the terms with their definition:

1. Push Factors:
2. Pull Factors:
3. Immigrate:
4. Emigrate:

A: Things about a place that attract people to the area.

B: To exit ones own country in order to settle permanently in another (to leave)
C: To come into a country of which one is not a native, usually to settle permanently (to arrive)
D: Things about a place that help migrants decide to leave their home.

Choose either A. or B. to decide if the person in each story is Refugee or a Migrant based on
their situation:
A: Migrant

B: Refugee

5. My name is Amare. I have just reached Europe with my legal documents that prove I am
from Nigeria. I got asylum and now cannot be legally deported home since it is not safe there.
6. My name is James and I am leaving my home in Great Brittan to live with my cousin in
Germany. There are many great jobs there and I hope to make more money than I make here.
7. My name is Pascal. I am trying to move to Canada to get out of my bad neighborhood here in
Brazil. I lost my legal documents on the trip, so Im worried Ill get deported even if I make it.
8. My name is Tara and my home has been destroyed by ISIS in Iraq. My father was killed in
the conflict and I am hoping to reach Greece where my mother is waiting for me with our legal
documents.

Choose A, B, C, or D to match the Barriers to Immigration to the correct types:

A. Political

B. Cultural C. Physical

D. Economic

9. Mountains

13. No jobs where you are going

10. Walls / Barricades

14. Different Language spoken

11. Lack of Money

15. Discouraged Practices

12. Rivers

16. Processes / Laws

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Use the map above to match the number on each country to that countrys name and the letter below.
A. Libya

B. Syria

C. Greece

D. Lebanon

E. Egypt

Write the answers to the following questions on your answer sheet:

22. Give one example of an economic pull factor.
23. Give one example of an environmental push factor.
24. Give one example of a social pull factor.
25. Explain asylum and how/ why it is granted in your own words: