Social Sciences and History / Unit 11 SSH 1012 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Push and Pull
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The idea
Push factors are forces that encourage people to leave a place; pull factors, forces that draw them to another. Forced migration is movement coerced by external forces, environmental, economic, social or political. Migration is a nexus of movement, not a single one-way move.
In practice
War and drought push; jobs and family pull.
Where people slip
Economic factors are the main reason, Ravenstein's sixth law.
Your place on the trail
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