Topic 2.10 Causes of Migration

Question 1

Push Factors

Answer 1

factors that cause people to become dissatisfied with their present locale and want to move somewhere else; can be environmental, economic, political, and/or cultural

Question 2

Pull Factors

Answer 2

attributes of a place that make it attractive to possible migrants; can be environmental, economic, political, and/or cultural

Question 3

Intervening obstacles

Answer 3

complications that migrants need to overcome to reach their destination

Question 4

Intervening Opportunities

Answer 4

opportunities that make a migrant settle in an area instead of going on to their originally planned destination