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A push factor induces people to move out of their present location. A pull factor induces people to move into a new location.

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Occurs because of political conflict. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees recognizes three groups of people who are forced to migrate for political reasons; refugees, internally displaced person, an asylum seeker

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A refugee is a person who is forced to migrate to another country to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights, or other disasters and cannot return for fear of persecution because of race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or a political opinion.

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An internally displaced person (IDP) has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an international border.

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An asylum seeker is a person who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee.

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People sometimes migrate for environmental reasons, pulled toward physically attractive regions and pushed from hazardous ones.

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The floodplain of a river is the area subject flooding during a specific number of years

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The transfer of money by workers to people in the country from which they emigrated.The total amount of remittances worldwide was $550 billion in 2013

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An environmental or political feature that hinders migration.
Ex) long, arduous, and expensive passage over land or sea

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China- Approximately 35 million chinese live in other countries (The United States is the leading receiving country)
Southwest Asia- The wealthy oil producing countries of Southwest Asia have been major destinations for people from South and Southeast Asia

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Most long distance migrants were young adults seeking work rather than children or elderly people. Recent immigrants to the U.S. have attended school for fewer years and are less likely to have high school diplomas than U.S. citizens

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People often emigrate from places that have few job opportunities and immigrate to places where jobs seem to be available

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Ravenstein theorized that males were more likely than females to migrate long distances to other countries because searching for work was the main reason for international migration. Since the 1990s, women have accounted for about half of the unauthorized immigrants from mexico