Push and Pull Factors

What is migration?

• Staying in the same place and not moving

• The movement of people from one place to another

Why do people migrate?

• Only due to push factors

• Because of both the push and pull factors

• Only due to pull factors

What is the best explanation of a push factor?

• Something that pulls someone to move into their home country

• Something that pushes someone to move out of their home country

Another factor of migration is ECONOMY. The image for ECONOMY showed a bag with a dollar sign on it.  Which choice  IS an example of an economic factor?  

• not having enough hospitals to care for sick people

• having a job that pays a salary 

• classrooms in schools that are overcrowded

Economic push factors include jobs and salaries that allow people to have a...

• Poor quality of life

• Good quality of life

Which image shows the social push factor of poverty?  

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Which image shows one of the political push factors listed on the screen? 

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An example of an economic Pull Factor is ...

• Someone is able to have a job with a salary (good pay)

• Someone is unable to have a job with a salary (good pay)

An example of a Political pull factor is 

• Living in a country where you do not have freedoms protected by the government

• Living in a country where you have freedoms guaranteed by the government