CONTENT STATEMENT
Physical, cultural, economic, and political factors contribute to human migrations (e.g., drought, religious conflicts, job opportunities, immigration laws).
CONTENT ELABORATION
Human migration is the process of people moving from one place to another with the intention of settling in the new location for an extended period of time. Human migration can be characterized as emigration, movement relative to the point of departure, and immigration, movement relative to the destination.
A variety of factors lead to migrations of people. Pull factors are those things that attract people to a particular location (e.g., favorable climate, access to quality education system, low cost of living, civil liberties). Push factors are those things that drive people away from a location (e.g., drought, ethnic persecution, extreme poverty, war, crackdown on political dissent).
EXPECTATIONS FOR LEARNING
Explain how pull and push factors influence human migrations.