MIGRATION LEXICON

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Table of contents

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4

Introduction

English / Arabic

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Arabic / English

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Introduction

Migration is not a new phenomenon in the Middle East and this is

especially the case for the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council
.
(GCC) that since the oil boom of the 1970s have relied heavily on both
skilled and unskilled foreign labour to develop their economies. The
Middle East accounts nowadays for over ten percent of the worlds total
.
migrants with the oil-rich countries of the Persian Gulf hosting the

highest concentration of migrant workers in the world. Migration in the
region has a diverse face with the presence of legal migrants,
.
undocumented migrants, refugees and special groups. The growing
.
interest of governments, academic institutions and the media, has
produced in the last years a noticeable amount of specialised literature ,
(both in Arabic and in other languages) that specifically addressing ) (
.
Middle East international migration. Government officials concerned

with migration, lawmakers, researchers, and more widely international
migration experts and practitioners have increasingly felt the need to
utilise specialised terminology into Arabic that could accurately describe
.
the multi-layered dimensions of migration. This English/Arabic/French
/ /
lexicon of migration terminology is the by-product of different activities
carried out in the last few years by the Cairo Mission with Regional
.
Functions for the Middle East of the International Organization for

Migration (IOM). Although Arabic is not an official IOM language, a

number of basic migration documents have been translated into this
.
language to be used during conferences and other events while

specialised terminology has been used and refined to support capacity
building initiatives targeting government officials of IOM Arab member .
states. All these efforts have been finally brought together here and
.
resulted in this initial attempt to facilitate the consolidation of migration-
specialised terminology in Arabic. The lexicon does not pretend to be a

setting-stone scientific linguistic piece, but simply an easy and practical
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supporting tool for IOM missions and counterparts working with Arabic.

IOM Cairo is thankful to all those fine colleagues who with their
.
dedicated and continuous work have contributed to this small - but
2004 /
hopefully useful - accomplishment.
Cairo, May 2004

English

Arabic

Abduction

Abuse of authority

Access to relief assistance

Advisory opinion

/ /

Advocacy

Age structure

Airport assistance

Alien

Altered document

/ /

Amnesty programme

Anti-immigrant political platform

Anti-trafficking initiative

Appropriate housing

Arbitrary arrest

Armed conflict

Assault

Assets

Assisted return

Asylum applicant

Asylum application (unfounded)

Asylum disclaimer

Asylum seeker

Authenticity of travel document

Basic need

Battery

Bonded labor

Border

Border control agency

/ /

Border control post

Border controls

Border crossing point

Border escort

Border Management

Border measures

Brain Drain and Gain

) (

Breach of contract

Capacity building

Cash grant

Central authority

Certification of identity

Checkpoint

Child labour

Child mother

Child neglect

Child pornography

Child prostitution

Child soldier

Citizens

Citizenship

Civil liberty

Civil society

Civil war

Claim and Compensation

Clandestine industry

Clandestine movements of workers

Closing border

Combating trafficking

Commercial sexual exploitation

Communicable disease

Competent authority

Compulsory labor

//

Concealment of births

Concentration camp

Confidence-building literacy

Confiscation and seizure

Confiscation of passport

Conflict situation

Constant displacement

Consular access

Control of document

Conveyances

Counselling

/ /

Counter-trafficking service

Country of adoption

Country of destination

Country of origin

Country of transit

Country supplying labour

Crime prevention

Criminal liability of migrant

Criminalization

Cross border transfer

Cross-border movement

Cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment

Cultural Adjustment

Cultural orientation

Cultural Shock

De facto refugee

Debt bondage

Degrading

Demobilization

Denial of entry

Departure

Dependant minor children

Depopulating

Deportation

Designated settlements for asylum seekers

Destination

Destination point

Detained

Detention centre

diaspora

Discrimination

Discriminatory practice

Disguised traffic

Disorderly outflow

Dispersed population

Displaced persons

Displacement

Document Counterfeit

Document reader

Documented migrant

Domestic violence

Domestic worker

Domicile

Due process guarantee

Economic downturn

Economic integration

10

Embarkation point

Emigration

Endangerment of children

Entry

Entry stamp

Ethnic cleansing

Ethnic persecution

Evacuation

Eviction order

Exceptional leave to remain

Exceptional leave to return

Excludable alien

Exile

Expertise

Exploitation

Expulsion

Extradition

Extradition of national

Extradition procedure

Extraterritorially

11

Facilitated passage

False document

False identity

Family reunification

Female migration

Feminization of migration

Fleeing population

Food Stamp

Forced displacement

Forced eviction

Forced labour

Forced marriage

Forced migrant

Forced Migration

Forced removal

Foreign national

Former refugee

Fraudulent or irregular documentation

Freedom of movement

Fundamental right of migrant

12

Gender-based violence

Girl domestic worker

Globalization

Governance

Granting refugee status

Ground transportation

Habitual residence

Harbouring

High qualified migration

Highly skilled labour migration

Holding centre

Home office decision

Homeless

Homogenous territory

Host country

Hotline

House demolition

Housing

Housing shelter

Human exchange

13

Humanitarian assistance

Identity document

Illegal activity

Illegal alien

Illegal entry

Illegal migration

Illegal transporting of migrant

Immigration

Immigration Desk

Immigration legislation

Immigration policy

Immigration status

Imminent danger

Infiltrate

Influx

Integration

Inter-country network

Internal conflict

Internally displaced person

International covenant

14

International labour market

International migration

Internment camp

Interregional

Intimidation

Intolerance

Involuntary migration

Irregular migrant

Irregular migration

Irregular outflow

Job placement

Joint border committee

Juvenile

Labor camp

Labour code

Labour enforcement official

Labour migration

Land expropriation

Landmine

Lawfully Admitted Alien

)(

15

Legal counselling

Legal integration

Legal migration

Legal protection

Legal resident status

Legal stay

Legitimacy of document

Limited residence permit

Linking labour diasporas into local

development

Long- term refugee situation

Long-term migrant

Low-skilled migrant

Managing migration flows

Mass exodusu

Mass movement

Mediation

Medical evacuation

Micro-entreprise

Middleman

Migrant national

16

Migrant right to health

Migrant stock

Migrant Worker

Migrating population

Migration

Migration data

Migration health service

Migration management structure

Migration pattern

Migration policy

Migration pressure

Migration trend

Migratory movement

Minor

Mobile population

Movement

Nation

Nation state

Nationality

Naturalization

17

Non-citizen

Non-refoulement

Oil migration

Orderly migration

Organised migration

Organized crime syndicate

Organized criminal group

Orientation programmes on migration

Oversea worker

Overseas employment institutions of sending

countries

Overstay

Permanent relocation

Permanent resettlement

Permanent residence

Permanent resident alien

Perpetrator in trafficking in persons

Persona non grata

Police harassment

Policy Debate and Guidance

Policy Harmonization

18

Population ageing

Population decline

Population division

Population mobility

Population transfer

Post arrival

Post-Conflict Recovery

Post-conflict situation

Post-conflict society

Post-crisis rehabilitation

Post-emergency migration management

Potential abuse

Potential victim

Potential/Prospective migrant

Pre-departure training for labour migrant

Pre-deployment programme

Preventive health screening

Principal migrant

Proceed of crime

Processing immigration documents

19

Property claim

Protected village

Protection of migrant

Protracted refugee situation

Pull of changing demographics

""

Qualified national

Racial discrimination

Racism

Rape camp

Rapporteur

Receiving (hosting) country

Re-circulation opportunity

Recognised refugee

Recognized camp

Reconstruction and development

Record Keeping

Recruitment, testing and certification of

applicants

Recruting workers in countries of origin

Refoulement

Refugee

20

Refugee camp

Refugee centre

Refugee inflow

Refugee processing centre

Refugeehood

Refugee-populated area

Refugee-specific legislation

Regional and extra-regional dialogue and

planning

Regional migration process

Registered refugee

Regroupement

Regular labour migration

Regularization of migrant worker

Regularization programme

Rehabilitation

Rehabilitation scheme

Reinsertion in the local market

Reintegration

Reintegration programme

Relocating

21

Remittances

Repatriate refugee

Repatriation

Replacement migration

Replacement population

Reproductive health

Resettlement

Resettlement country

Residence

Return activity

Return and reintegration of skilled expatriates

Return diplomacy

Return forum

Return grant

Return movement

Return of talent to counteract the brain drain

Returnee

Returning migrant

Returning population

Re-victimization

22

Revocation of visa

Right and integrity of migrant

Right of return

Safe area

Safe third country

Sale of children

Seasonal activity

Seasonal worker

Selective recrutment policy

Self-employment

Semi-skilled and skilled worker

Sending countries

Servitude

Settler

Sex industry

Sex tourism

Sexual slavery

Sham adoption

Sham marriage

Short-term migrant

23

Slave labour

Slavery

Slavery-like practice

Slum clearance

Smuggling

Social integration

Sovereign equality

Squatters

Stateless person

Status-determination procedures

Subregional

Sweatshops

Systematic rape

Targeted Assistance

Temporary job placement

Temporary manpower adjustment strategy

Temporary protection measures

Temporary protection status

Temporary shelter

Temporary worker programme

24

Third country resettlement

Tolerance

Torture

Trade union

Trafficker

Trafficking in women and children

Trafficking of migrant

Traffiking in human organs

Trans-border trafficking

Transfer of earning

Transfer of refugee

Transit migrant

Transit visa

Transnational

Transnational organized crime

Transnationalism

Transportation

Travel allowance

/ /

Travel document

Travel expenses

25

Unaccompanied migrant child

Unauthorized migrant

Undocumented migrant

Undocumented migration

Unlawful alteration of travel documents

Unlawful arrest

Valid entry

Valid passport

Validity of document

Victim protection facility

Violent xenphobic acts

Virtual slave

Visa

Visa waiver

Vocational training

Voluntary assisted return

Voluntary migration

Voluntary repatriation

Voluntary return

Vulnerability

26

Vulnerable group

Vulnerable population

White slave traffic

Withdrawing refugee status

Withdrawn asylum application

Woman Migrant Worker

Xenophobia

27

English

Dependant minor children

Traffiking in human organs

Trafficking of migrant

Trafficking in women and children

Trans-border trafficking

Migration trend

Extradition procedure

Temporary protection measures

Due process guarantee

Status-determination procedures

Evacuation

Medical evacuation

Lawfully Admitted Alien

)(

Excludable alien

Illegal alien

Alien

Arbitrary arrest

Basic need

28

Replacement population

Abduction

Concealment of births

Depopulating

Forced eviction

Breach of contract

Border Management

Post-emergency migration management

Managing migration flows

Forced removal

Potential abuse

Child pornography

Temporary manpower adjustment strategy

Legal counselling

Counselling

/ /

Processing immigration documents

Exploitation

Child prostitution

Commercial sexual exploitation

Abuse of authority

29

Recruting workers in countries of origin

Recruitment, testing and certification of

applicants

Brain Drain and Gain

) (

Assets

Ethnic persecution

Reinsertion in the local market

Repatriation

Reintegration

Reconstruction and development

Post-crisis rehabilitation

Permanent resettlement

Third country resettlement

Resettlement

Repatriate refugee

Rehabilitation

Regroupement

Refoulement

Family reunification

Assault

Unlawful arrest

30

Visa waiver

Violent xenphobic acts

Self-employment

Systematic rape

Closing border

Interregional

Residence

Exceptional leave to remain

Habitual residence

Permanent residence

Permanent relocation

Legal resident status

Revocation of visa

Child mother

Nation

Eviction order

Consular access

Integration

Social integration

Economic integration

31

Legal integration

Seasonal activity

Child neglect

Long- term refugee situation

Protracted refugee situation

Harbouring

Temporary shelter

Orientation programmes on migration

Regularization programme

Reintegration programme

Cultural orientation

Amnesty programme

Temporary worker programme

Pre-deployment programme

Legal stay

Homeless

Resettlement country

Country of adoption

Country of transit

Country of destination

32

Country of origin

Safe third country

Host country

Receiving (hosting) country

Sending countries

Capacity building

Age structure

Migration data

Sale of children

Visa

Valid entry

Transit visa

Feminization of migration

Human exchange

Sham adoption

White slave traffic

Disguised traffic

Overstay

Criminalization

Vulnerable population

33

Police harassment

Movement

Return movement

Clandestine movements of workers

Mass movement

Unlawful alteration of travel documents

Transfer of earning

Cross border transfer

Remittances

Border measures

Pre-departure training for labour migrant

Vocational training

Refugee inflow

Mass exodusu

Disorderly outflow

Irregular outflow

Influx

House demolition

Intimidation

Tolerance

34

Demobilization

Infiltrate

Extradition of national

Extradition

Regularization of migrant worker

Refugee-specific legislation

Immigration legislation

Limited residence permit

Slum clearance

Ethnic cleansing

Torture

Endangerment of children

Confidence-building literacy

Temporary job placement

Relocating

Airport assistance

Cultural Adjustment

Access to relief assistance

Discrimination

Racial discrimination

35

Asylum disclaimer

Population decline

Job placement

Policy Harmonization

Smuggling

diaspora

Dispersed population

Transnational organized crime

Organized criminal group

Nationality

Citizenship

Document reader

Valid passport

Temporary protection status

Refugeehood

Post-conflict situation

Conflict situation

Juvenile

Border

Civil war

36

Population mobility

Migratory movement

Cross-border movement

Freedom of movement

Fundamental right of migrant

Right of return

Migrant right to health

Right and integrity of migrant

Civil liberty

Governance

Protection of migrant

Legal protection

Policy Debate and Guidance

Regional and extra-regional dialogue and

planning

Extraterritorially

Expertise

Entry stamp

Migration health service

Counter-trafficking service

Hotline

37

Imminent danger

Entry

Illegal entry

Nation state

Country supplying labour

Subregional

Return diplomacy

Linking labour diasporas into local

development

Foreign national

Slavery

Forced marriage

Sham marriage

Withdrawing refugee status

Returning population

Squatters

Fleeing population

Mobile population

Migrating population

Housing

Appropriate housing

38

Competent authority

Central authority

Sex industry

International labour market

Sex tourism

Selective recrutment policy

Immigration policy

Migration policy

Stateless person

Persona non grata

Legitimacy of document

Population division

Certification of identity

Population ageing

Reproductive health

Authenticity of travel document

Cultural Shock

Internal conflict

Armed conflict

Validity of document

39

Potential victim

Battery

Vulnerability

Migration pressure

Border controls

Food Stamp

Asylum applicant

Asylum seeker

Expulsion

Child soldier

Unaccompanied migrant child

Property claim

Withdrawn asylum application

Asylum application (unfounded)

Returnee

Proceed of crime

Oversea worker

Seasonal worker

Semi-skilled and skilled worker

Domestic worker

40

Migrant Worker

Woman Migrant Worker

Virtual slave

Transnationalism

Transnational

Servitude

Debt bondage

Sexual slavery

Migrant stock

Intolerance

Non-refoulement

Denial of entry

Inter-country network

Slave labour

Child labour

Forced labour

Compulsory labor

//

Bonded labor

Regional migration process

Racism

41

Domestic violence

Gender-based violence

International covenant

Pull of changing demographics

""

Exceptional leave to return

Return and reintegration of skilled expatriates

Return of talent to counteract the brain drain

Post-Conflict Recovery

Voluntary return

Voluntary repatriation

Globalization

Non-citizen

Vulnerable group

Girl domestic worker

Advisory opinion

/ /

Preventive health screening

Re-circulation opportunity

Minor

Labour code

Home office decision

42

Protected village

Xenophobia

Economic downturn

Registered refugee

Former refugee

Refugee

Recognised refugee

De facto refugee

Joint border committee

Landmine

Overseas employment institutions of sending

countries

Sweatshops

Anti-trafficking initiative

Trafficker

Post-conflict society

Civil society

Organized crime syndicate

Domicile

Travel allowance

/ /

Control of document

43

Border escort

Refugee centre

Perpetrator in trafficking in persons

Post arrival

Communicable disease

Victim protection facility

Refugee processing centre

Detention centre

Housing shelter

Holding centre

Border control post

Facilitated passage

Criminal liability of migrant

Targeted Assistance

Assisted return

Humanitarian assistance

Voluntary assisted return

Designated settlements for asylum seekers

Sovereign equality

Settler

44

Record Keeping

Rehabilitation scheme

Micro-entreprise

Confiscation of passport

Confiscation and seizure

Travel expenses

Claim and Compensation

Cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment

Re-victimization

Detained

Internment camp

Rape camp

Labor camp

Refugee camp

Recognized camp

Concentration camp

Departure

Rapporteur

Permanent resident alien

Combating trafficking

45

Immigration Desk

Discriminatory practice

Slavery-like practice

Advocacy

Return forum

Naturalization

Granting refugee status

Return grant

Cash grant

Safe area

Refugee-populated area

Homogenous territory

Border control agency

/ /

Crime prevention

Exile

Anti-immigrant political platform

Principal migrant

Transit migrant

Low-skilled migrant

Documented migrant

46

Returning migrant

Long-term migrant

Irregular migrant

Unauthorized migrant

Undocumented migrant

Forced migrant

Short-term migrant

Potential/Prospective migrant

Degrading

Qualified national

Migrant national

Citizens

Labour enforcement official

Internally displaced person

Displaced persons

Land expropriation

Displacement

Forced displacement

Constant displacement

Return activity

47

Illegal activity

Clandestine industry

Trade union

Embarkation point

Destination point

Checkpoint

Border crossing point

Transportation

Ground transportation

Population transfer

Transfer of refugee

Illegal transporting of migrant

Migration pattern

Migration

Replacement migration

Oil migration

High qualified migration

Female migration

Regular labour migration

Highly skilled labour migration

48

Labour migration

Immigration

International migration

Legal migration

Voluntary migration

Involuntary migration

Illegal migration

Undocumented migration

Irregular migration

Forced Migration

Emigration

Orderly migration

Organised migration

Migration management structure

Fraudulent or irregular documentation

Identity document

Travel document

Altered document

/ /

Document Counterfeit

False document

49

False identity

Destination

Conveyances

Mediation

Middleman

Immigration status

50