Push-Pull Factors of Immigration

Factors that make a person want to leave their country

• Push

• Pull

Factors that attract immigrants to come and live in one country over another.

• Push

• Pull

Hope for a new life and new opportunities

• Push

• Pull

In 1846 the Potato Famine left many people in Ireland without food.

• Push

• Pull

Many Jewish people left Russia in 1882 because of hatred toward them.

• Push

• Pull

A democracy offers a government for the people, by the people as stated in the Constitution.

• Push

• Pull

To escape poverty and disease

• Push

• Pull

The American Indian left the Great Plains to live on reservations.

• Push

• Pull

Between 1880-1900 thousands of factory jobs became available in the United States because of industrialization

• Push

• Pull

To work on the transcontinental railroad

• Push

• Pull