Push/Pull Factors

Flooding

• Push from a rural environment
• Pull to an urban environment

Good medical facilities

• Pull factor into a city
• Push factor from a rural environment

Desertification

• Push factor
• Pull factor

Under resourced rural schools

• Pull factor
• Push factor

War and disorder

• Pull factor
• Push factor

Environmental disasters

• Pull factor
• Push factor

Better employment opportunities in cities

• Economic reason for moving
• Social reason for moving
• Political reason for moving
• Environmental reason for moving

Better educational opportunities

• Environmental reason
• Economic reason
• Social reason
• Political reason

War is a _______ reason to move

• Social
• Environmental
• Economic
• Political

religious/ political freedom

• push
• pull