Migration
Year 9 🏙️ Human Geography Types of migration, push and pull factors, refugee crises.
✈️ Understanding Migration
Migration is the movement of people from one place to another. It can be voluntary or forced.
Push Factors
Reasons to leave: war, poverty, environmental disaster, lack of jobs, political persecution, climate change.
Pull Factors
Reasons to move to a destination: jobs, higher wages, political stability, education, healthcare, family.
Voluntary vs. Forced
Voluntary: economic migrants choose to move. Forced: refugees and asylum seekers have no safe choice but to leave.
Intervening Obstacles
Distance, language barriers, immigration laws, cultural differences, cost of moving (Lee's Model).
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