What is the difference between migrant and immigrant?
By definition, a migrant is a person that moves from one region to another, or an itinerant worker who travels from one area to another in search of agricultural work. The person who moves is also referred to as migratory. The root of the term comes from the verb “to migrate,” which has to do with movement from one region to another. The term immigrant refers to a person who leaves one country to settle in another. So, for example, people who come into the U.S. from other countries and settle here are immigrants. The term migrant, in the case of the migrant education program, refers to a move for the purpose of obtaining work directly related to agriculture or fishing. Neither term infers anything related to legal status.
