push-pull factors
Relocation cause categories
Push-pull factors are the forces that drive migration between places.
Push factors repel people from their current location—war, poverty, persecution, lack of opportunity.
Pull factors attract people toward a destination—jobs, safety, freedom, family reunification.
Migration decisions typically involve both: The push-pull factors behind the Great Migration included Southern segregation and Northern industrial jobs.
- warArmed struggle between groups
- war zoneArea of active conflict
- employmentPaid occupation status
- climate changePlanetary atmospheric transformation
- natural disasterCatastrophic environmental event
wages · droughts · family reunification · brain drain · labor market · human rights violations · persecution · remittances · cultural identity · discrimination · civil unrest · economic inequality · floods · asylum seekers · safety net · better life · greener pastures · land of opportunity
push-pull factorssedentariness
Habitual physical inactivity
rootedness · staying put · immobility · stasis · nomadism