what is the emigration
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EMIGRATION
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What is “Emigration”?
Emigration is the act of leaving one's native country or region to settle in
another.
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• Motives to migrate can be either incentives attracting people away, known as pull factors, or circumstances encouraging a person to leave, known as push factors.
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Push factors:
*Lack of employment or looking for better opportunities
*Lack of political or religious rights
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*Restrictions on practice of religion
*Shortage of farmland; hard to start new farms
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*Oppressive legal/political conditions
*Military draft, warfare
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*Famine or drought …
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*Cultural fights with other cultural groups
*Expulsion by armed force or coercion
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Pull factors
*Better opportunities for acquiring farms for self and children
*Cheap purchase of farmland
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*More job opportunities
*Higher pay
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*Prepaid travel (from relatives)
*Better welfare programs
*Better schools
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* Join friends and relatives who have already moved
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*Build a new nation
*Build religious community
*Political freedom