Push and pull factors help explain migration patterns between locations. Push factors encourage people to leave their home country or region, such as unemployment, poverty, war, or natural disasters. Pull factors attract migrants to a new location through potential opportunities like jobs, higher wages, better services, political security, or family connections in the destination country or region.

1. Push and Pull Factors in
Immigration

2. Push vs. Pull Factors
• Push and pull factors help explain why people
migrate from one place to another.
• Push factors: Factors that help migrants
decide to leave their home.
• Pull factors: Factors that attract people to an
area where migrants are going.

3. Push and Pull Factors
Push Factors
• Unemployment
• Not safe
• Lack of services
• Poverty
• Crop Failure
• Drought
• War, Civil Unrest
• Hazards
• Isolation
Pull Factors
• Potential jobs
• Safer environment
• Better services
• Greater wealth
• Fertile land
• Lots of food
• Political security
• Friends and family

4. Natural Disasters

5. Higher Wages

6. War

7. Food shortage

8. Family links

9. Unemployment

10. Political Security

11. Low crime rate