what is the emigration

EMIGRATION

What is “Emigration”?

Emigration is the act of leaving one's native country or region to settle in

another.

• 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.

Push factors:

*Lack of employment or looking for better opportunities

*Lack of political or religious rights

*Restrictions on practice of religion

*Shortage of farmland; hard to start new farms

*Oppressive legal/political conditions

*Military draft, warfare

*Famine or drought …

*Cultural fights with other cultural groups

*Expulsion by armed force or coercion

Pull factors

*Better opportunities for acquiring farms for self and children

*Cheap purchase of farmland

*More job opportunities

*Higher pay

*Prepaid travel (from relatives)

*Better welfare programs

*Better schools

* Join friends and relatives who have already moved

*Build a new nation

*Build religious community

*Political freedom