Family unit in the context of "Human migration"

⭐ In the context of human migration, family units are most notably considered…

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⭐ Core Definition: Family unit

Family (from Latin: familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictability, structure, and safety as members mature and learn to participate in the community. Historically, most human societies use family as the primary purpose of attachment, nurturance, and socialization.

Anthropologists classify most family organizations as matrifocal (a mother and her children), patrifocal (a father and his children), conjugal (a married couple with children, also called the nuclear family), avuncular (a man, his sister, and her children), or extended (in addition to parents, spouse and children, may include grandparents, aunts, uncles, or cousins).

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👉 Family unit in the context of Human migration

Human migration is the movement of people from one place to another, with intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily, at a new location (geographic region). The movement often occurs over long distances and from one country to another (external migration), but internal migration (within a single country) is the dominant form of human migration globally.

Migration is often associated with better human capital at both individual and household level, and with better access to migration networks, facilitating a possible second move. It has a high potential to improve human development, and some studies confirm that migration is the most direct route out of poverty. Age is also important for both work and non-work migration. People may migrate as individuals, in family units or in large groups. There are four major forms of migration: invasion, conquest, colonization and emigration/immigration.

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LINKED FROM (PARENTS)
← Human migration ← Push and pull factors ← Push factors
LINKS TO (CHILDREN)
Sauk people → Frank Rinehart → Latin language → Social group → People → Consanguinity → Affinity (law) → Social order → Predictability → Attachment theory → Socialization → Anthropologist → Matrifocal family → Patrifocal → Nuclear family → Avuncular → Extended family → Parents → Spouse → Children → Grandparent → Aunt → Uncle → Cousin →