Migrants are subject to both push and pull factors. Define push and pull factors, and give an example of each


Push factors repel people, while pull factors attract people.
Migration is usually associated with either push factors, as when hunger or lack of land "pushes" peasants out of rural areas into cities or warfare pushes people from one place to another, or pull factors, when, for example, an educated person is "pulled" by a job opportunity or the chance for further education in the city or another country.

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