Immigration Push Pull Factors

Immigration is

• returning to your home after an extended vacation

• leaving your home for an extended vacation

• permanently moving to another country

• belief that native-born Americans are superior to others

a civil war in your home country breaks out and you and your family leave to go to another country

• push factor

• pull factor

for the past five years a blight in agriculture has caused crops to fail and many people are dying of famine

• push factor

• pull factor

under the new president's government jobs are becoming scarce and unemployment is high

• push factor

• pull factor

The United States offers freedom of speech and expression (rights your government has taken away)

• push factors

• pull factors

Amazon is building a new headquarters in Long Island City New York, and Arlington Virginia and needs to hire 50,000 workers

• push factors

• pull factors

many immigrants who came to America settled in these places where other immigrants shared the same culture

• ethnic neighborhoods

• nativist

• cottages

• hotels