WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The factors that force people to migrate to another place are called ‘push factors’. Poverty and unemployment are the most common push factors.

Detailed explanation-2: -In contrast, low income and absolute poverty work both as push-factors and as credit constraints, so that people may want to leave, but few can afford to migrate when poverty is high.

Detailed explanation-3: -For this paper, much as poverty is a push factor of migration, it is also a pull factor. This assertion is couched on the fact that if poverty is a push factor in order to remedy it, it follows that in an attempt to remedy poverty; it becomes a pull factor in terms of remittances accruing from such migration.

Detailed explanation-4: -Push factors encourage people to leave their points of origin and settle elsewhere, while pull factors attract migrants to new areas. For example, high unemployment is a common push factor, while an abundance of jobs is an effective pull factor.

Detailed explanation-5: -Conversely, poverty as a pull factor is associated with remittances ploughed back home by migrants to help ameliorate the impact of poverty among relatives at home.