Project file topic
Imagine if your family has decided
to relocate to another country. What
pull factors will you consider before
leaving your country for a new
country?
In other words, list down the pull
factors which will attract you to live ir
the new country,
Answers
Explanation:
Project file topic
Imagine if your family has decided
to relocate to another country. What
pull factors will you consider before
leaving your country for a new
country?
In other words, list down the pull
factors which will attract you to live ir
the new country,
Answer:
There are many economic, social and physical reasons why people emigrate and they can usually be classified into push and pull factors.
What are push and pull factors?
Push factors are those associated with the area of origin
Pull factors are those that are associated with the area of destination
Economic reasons
Economic motives loom large in all human movements, but are particularly important with regards to migration.
Pull Factors
More jobs
Better jobs
Higher wages
The promise of a “better life”
Sometimes this is encouraged by the destination country for example, the 1960’s employment campaign in the Caribbean by London bus companies that actively recruited young men to move to London to work as bus drivers, who were then often followed by their families.
Another example might be the “brain drain” to America that occurred in the latter half of the 20th century from several other western countries.
Push Factors
Economic push factors tend to be the exact reversal of the pull factors:
Overpopulation
Few jobs
Low wages
This lack of economic opportunity tends to push people to look for their futures outside the area of their origin.
An example of this is the migration of Mexicans and people from other Central American countries into the US, where they often work low-wage, long-hour jobs in farming, construction and domestic labour.
It’s difficult to classify this case purely with push factors though, because often the factors associated with the country of origin are just as important as the factors associated with the country of destination.
Forced migration has also been used for economic gain, such as the 20 million men, women and children who were forcibly carried as slaves to the Americas between the 16th and 18th centuries.