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Let’s Recall

• Human migration is the process through which people move from a permanent place of
residence to another more or less permanent one for a substantial period of time.
• Immigration is the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country, while
emigration is the act of leaving one’s place of residence or country to permanently live in
another.
• There are economic, social and physical reasons for people to migrate.
• There are many types of migrations like intercontinental, seasonal, rural-urban, forced or
voluntary.
• Migration has positive and negative impacts on the countries they go to and the countries
they have left behind.
• Brain drain is the phenomenon in which skilled individuals leave a country to settle in
another, due to which the country they leave behind is deprived of skilled workers.

Let’s Learn

A Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1. What is human migration?
(a) When humans fl y south for the winter

(b) The seasonal or long-term movement of humans from an area of a city to another
(c) The temporary movement of humans from one area of the Earth to another
(d) The seasonal or long-term movement of humans from one area of the Earth to another.

2. Which of the following best describes moving into an area due to better job opportunities?
(a) Physical factors (b) Social factors
(c) Economic factors (d) None of these

3. Which of the following lists are potential pull factors?
(a) Poor economy, religious persecution, location of family

(b) Lots of jobs, lots of natural resources, religious persecution
(c) High degree of freedom, pleasant climate, losing a job
(d) Lots of jobs, pleasant climate, lots of natural resources

4. What is a push factor?
(a) A reason for migration that relates to the area the person comes from–something that
is pushing them out of an area
(b) Being forced to migrate, whether you want to or not
(c) A reason for migration that relates to the area of destination–something that is
attracting them to an area
(d) None of these

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