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Migration - A permanent move to a new location
Immigration - Migration from a location
Emigration - Migration to a location
VOCABULARY
Why do people migrate?
How have social, economic, political, and environmental
factors influenced migration?
QUESTIONS
People decide to migrate because of push and pull factors. A push factor induces people to leave a location. A pull factor induces
people to move to a new location.
PUSH AND PULL FACTORS
When people cannot worship as they wish they migrate. The
pilgrims that landed at Plymouth were fleeing religious
persecution.
PUSH FACTOR - RELIGIOUS
PERSECUTION
The vast majority of people migrating from Latin America, Africa, and Asia are migrating
because there are no jobs.
PUSH FACTOR - LACK OF JOBS
Net migration rates: Countries in blue have a positive migration rate and countries in brown have a negative rate.
Agricultural decline means a person cannot grow as much food
on the same amount of land as they once could. Over time land becomes less fertile and people
have to move.
PUSH FACTOR - AGRICULTURAL DECLINE
People flee from wars. These people are known as refugees.
There are many refugee camps in Africa due to a long history of civil
war in many countries.
PUSH FACTOR - CONFLICT
Political persecution means that people are punished when they disagree with the government.
This happens most in dictatorships or communist
countries. People have migrated from China and Cuba because of
political persecution.
PUSH FACTOR - POLITICAL PERSECUTION
Communist countries often limit personal freedom. People cannot
listen to certain music, watch certain television shows, or even
say things bad about the government.
PUSH FACTOR - LIMITS ON FREEDOM
DeforestationDesertification - An expansion of
arid conditions into non-arid regions. This is a problem in the Sahel, a region near the Sahara
Desert in North Africa.
PUSH FACTOR - ENVIRONMENTAL
DEGRADATION
Religious FreedomEconomic Opportunity
Land AvailabilityPolitical Freedom
Ethnic and Family TiesArable Land
PULL FACTORS