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Historical Examples
Immigration
Types
Push or Pull
100
This migration from the East of the United States to the West was pushed by intolerance and violence.
What is the Mormon (LDS) migration?
100
Limits the number of people allowed to come into a country based upon where they came from.
What is a quota?
100
Pastoralists following their flocks would qualify as what type of migration?
What is transhumance?
100
There are too many people living here.
What is a push factor?
200
During the Great Potato Famine this group of migrants moved to the US in many thousands.
Who are the Irish?
200
Shelter and protection in one state for refugees from another state.
What is asylum?
200
Another name for movement that involves temporary, recurrent relocation.
What is periodic migration?
200
people are killing me
What is push factor?
300
Over 300,000 refugees fled in the early 1990's from this country in Southeastern Asia.
What is Cambodia?
300
Legal immigrants who have a work visa, usually short term.
What are guest workers?
300
Regular movement among a definite set of places.
What is nomadism
300
The weather is nicer there
What is pull factor?
400
Many people fled to this newly created country in the Middle East in the middle of the 20th century.
What is Israel?
400
Moving to an area where family or friends have already had success.
What are kinship links?
400
Migration that follows a similar route and is repeated annually or seasonally
What is cyclic migration
400
I hear that Uncle Bob is prospering there
What is pull factor?
500
In 1995 the UNHCR reported that 6,056,600 refugees fled from this former country.
What is Yugoslavia?
500
When individuals with certain backgrounds are barred from entering.
What is selective immigration?
500
Pattern of migration when migrants move through kinship links
What is chain migration?
500
My food is running out
What is push factor?