Migration

MIGRATION

• What is Migration?
• Migration is the process of a person or people travelling to a new place or country to live there temporarily or permanently.
• Human Migration
• Human migration is the movement by people from one place to another with the intention of settling permanently or temporarily in a new location.
• It has continued in two forms:
• Voluntary Migration
• Involuntary Migration (displacement due to war OR natural calamities)
• Human migrations have been initiated for the following reasons: (peers)
• political
• environmental
• economic
• religious
• social

Types of Migration

Factors for change in population

• Biological
• Birth rate
• Death rate
• Non-biological
• Migration

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