Reasons for Migration

• ​Define the following:

  • ​Migration

• ​Describe the reasons for migration

  • ​Push and Pull

  • ​Voluntary and Involuntary

​the movement of people across a specified boundary, national or international, to establish a new permanent place of residence.

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​'permanent' - lasting more than 1 year

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​Migration has economic, social, cultural, political, and environmental impacts.

Push and Pull

​negative conditions at the point of origin that encourage or force people to move.

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​eg. high level of unemployment

​positive conditions at the point of destination that encourage people to migrate.

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​eg. higher wages in another country or region

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​Voluntary and Involuntary

​Immigration laws present the greatest obstacle to most potential international migrants as countries attempt to manage immigration carefully, being most eager to attract people whose skills are in demand.

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​Chart: Passport power rankings

​Voluntary - individual has a free choice about whether to migrate or not.

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​​Involuntary - people are made to move against their will and this may be due to human and environmental factors.

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• ​Explusion of Asian from Uganda in the 1970s when the country was ruled by Idi Amin, a dictator.

• ​People moving out of Yugoslavia because of the policy of ethnic cleansing.

• ​Natural disasters: volcanic eruptions, floods, droughts, etc.

​Refugee - people forced to flee their homes due to human or environmental factors and who cross an international border into another country.

Internally displaced people - people forced to flee their homes due to human or environmental factors, but who remain in the same country.

• ​migration trends

• ​internal population movements

• ​depopulation and coutnerurbanisation