PUSH PULL FACTORS What are the patterns of people

leaving a place or going to a place?

WG.7.B explain how political, economic, social, and environmental push and pull factors and physical geography affect the routes and flows of human migration

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Which words are you familiar with, and which do you not yet know?

Push Factor Political Economic

Social Environmental Pattern

Flow Migration Pull Factor

What is this image saying about why people move?

PUSH

PULL

Are these political, economic, social, or environmental factors?

PUSH

PULL

What makes people leave a place?Which is aWhich is a

• political political reason?reason?

• economic economic reason?reason?

• social reason?social reason?

• environmental environmental reason?reason?

PUSH FACTORSPUSH FACTORS

What makes people move to place?

Which is aWhich is a

• political political reason?reason?

• economic economic reason?reason?

• social reason?social reason?

• environmental environmental reason?reason?

PULL FACTORSPULL FACTORS

Let’s see what we know…

Which are you ready to answer, and which do you need a peek?People migrate for a variety of reasons. They are usually categorized as push and pull factors. Which of the following is a push factor?A religious freedomB political stabilityC better employmentD natural disaster

Human migration is the result of push or pull factors. Which of the following is a pull factor?

F better employment

G natural disasters

H higher local taxes

J political instability

What are the patterns of people moving?

• If you have an opportunity like A, and you live in B, what might you do? Would others, too? How is that a pattern?

A B

What are the patterns of people moving?

• What changes when people move?

• What conflicts emerge?

A Middle East women in Paris

accompanied by male relative.

B Protesters gather to raise their objections to the French laws (Laicité) governing secularism and the present debate on Islamic practices in France at Place de République in Paris on April 2, 2011. The groups participating in the rally object to what they consider a false discussion on cultural aspects of Islam that incites Islamaphobia and stigmatization of Muslims living here in France. Photo by ©Will Crabb

What are the patterns of…

• Why people leave a place?

• Why people go to a place?

• What changes when people go to a place?

• What conflicts arise?

Let’s see what we know…

Which are you ready to answer, and which do you need a peek?Which pull factor has led many immigrants to European nations in recent decades?A to gain economic opportunitiesB to escaping civil warC to leave oppressive governmentsD to avoid natural disasters

Which of the following is a factor effecting the cultural and economic divide among people living in France today?F immigration of people from England and the United StatesG immigration of Muslims from Africa and the Middle EastH natural disasters in the far east such as tsunamisJ people fleeing disease in South America

Let’s see what we know…

Now that you know, can you answer this too?

What was the effect of the partitioning of India and Pakistan by the British in 1947?A Muslims migrated to India to form a majority.B Hindus migrated to Pakistan for safety.C Muslims fled from India to Pakistan.D Hindus totally left the region of Kashmir.

Which of the following pull factor attracted African Americans to northern cities after the Civil War?

A more jobs

B lower taxes

C milder climate

D abundant land

Talk to each other, and then talk to me…

• WG.7.B explain how political, economic, social, and environmental push and pull factors and physical geography affect the routes and flows of human migration.

• What are the patterns of people leaving a place or going to a place?

• Use the word wall words to answer.

Resources

• http://www.geographylwc.org.uk/GCSE/igcse/population/eumigration.htm

• http://www.themarshallbros.com/school/ss/chapter14/migrate/