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Push Pull Factors of Immigration

• Grade 9 Geography
• Lester B Pearson

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What factors cause people to immigrate?

• There are two reasons why people decided to leave
  their homelands or areas where they live.
• These reasons are called the PUSH and PULL
  factors

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Push Factor

• People leave their homelands because there are
  several factors that pushes them out of the
  country.

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- poverty in Greece, Poland, China
- needs a job to make money
- Libya, Somalia, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Iraq,
Palestine, Afghanistan
- dont want you or family to die, or thrown in
jail, or torture
- climate change leads to drought, heat waves,
hurricanes, floods, earthquakes
- Somalia, New Orleans (Katrina), Japan
(tsunami), Haiti (earthquake)
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Pull Factor

• People leave their homelands because there are
  several factors about their new country that
  pulls them to immigrate to that new country.

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- health care, housing, recreation, education
- new country has better social opportunities
- job opportunities

• Ontario for construction high tech.
• -Alberta, due to oil gas resource

- can practice your own religion beliefs
- Canada has human rights code