Emigration or migration

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

• It is the same as immigration but from the perspective of the country of origin.

• Human movement within one’s state, or same country is termed migration.

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Emigration Migration

Push- Pull Factors

• 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.

The Factors

• Lack of employment or entrepreneurial opportunities

• Lack of political or religious rights

• Restrictions on practice of religion

• Oppressive legal/political conditions

• Military draft, warfare• Cultural fights with other

cultural groups

• Better opportunities for acquiring farms for self and children

• Cheap purchase of farmland• Instant wealth (as in

California Gold Rush)• More job opportunities• Higher pay• Better welfare systems• Better schools• Join friends and relatives who

have already moved• Political freedom