EMIGRATION
Jun 24, 2015
EMIGRATION
What is “Emigration”?
Emigration is the act of leaving one's native country or region to settle in
another.
• 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.
Push factors:
*Lack of employment or looking for better opportunities
*Lack of political or religious rights
*Restrictions on practice of religion
*Shortage of farmland; hard to start new farms
*Oppressive legal/political conditions
*Military draft, warfare
*Famine or drought …
*Cultural fights with other cultural groups
*Expulsion by armed force or coercion
Pull factors
*Better opportunities for acquiring farms for self and children
*Cheap purchase of farmland
*More job opportunities
*Higher pay
*Prepaid travel (from relatives)
*Better welfare programs
*Better schools
* Join friends and relatives who have already moved
*Build a new nation
*Build religious community
*Political freedom