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Pull factor
A factor that draws or attracts people to another location.
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Push and pull forces of migration
So-called push factors may cause emigration when hunger or lack of land “pushes” peasants out of rural areas into cities, or by pull factors, as when an educated villager responds to a job opportunity in the cities.
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Push factor
A factor that causes people to leave their homelands and migrate to another region.