Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

Chapter 3: Migration (Why do people migrate? (types of push and pull…

- - - - Most migrants move only a short distance.
      - There is a process of absorption, whereby people immediately surrounding a rapidly growing town move into it and the gaps they leave are filled by migrants from more distant areas, and so on until the attractive force [pull factors] is spent.
      - There is a process of dispersion, which is the inverse of absorption.
      - Each migration flow produces a compensating counter-flow.
      - Long-distance migrants go to one of the great centers of commerce and industry.
      - Natives of towns are less migratory than those from rural areas.
      - Females are more migratory than males.
      - Economic factors are the main cause of migration.