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Page 1: What is the Emigration

EMIGRATION

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What is “Emigration”?

Emigration is the act of leaving one's native country or region to settle in

another.

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• Motives to migrate can be either incentives attracting people away, known as pull factors, or circumstances encouraging a person to leave, known as push factors.

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Push factors:

*Lack of employment or looking for better opportunities

*Lack of political or religious rights

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*Restrictions on practice of religion

*Shortage of farmland; hard to start new farms

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*Oppressive legal/political conditions

*Military draft, warfare

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*Famine or drought …

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*Cultural fights with other cultural groups

*Expulsion by armed force or coercion

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Pull factors

*Better opportunities for acquiring farms for self and children

*Cheap purchase of farmland

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*More job opportunities

*Higher pay

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*Prepaid travel (from relatives)

*Better welfare programs

*Better schools

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* Join friends and relatives who have already moved

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*Build a new nation

*Build religious community

*Political freedom