Learning outcome 1.1 Students should be able to explain a hierarchy of human needs and how this relates to human rights.
Students should be able to discuss what it means to be human and to live in a community with rights and responsibilities.
Learning outcome 1.3
Students should be able to explain the hierarchy of human needs and how this relates to human rights.
Exercise 10A Understanding the push and pull factors that cause migration Key Skills
Success criteria
I can name factors responsible for pushing people to leave their home and factors that pull people to move to other places.
Human migration is when a person or a group of people move permanently or temporarily to live in another place. It can include movement from one country to another and movement within a country. People seeking asylum, refugees, displaced persons, economic migrants or people moving to be reunited with family are all examples of human migration (these terms are explained later on page 34). Migration does not include travel such as commuting to work or tourism. In some cases, people choose to migrate, such as those looking for a job in another country, but in other cases people are forced to migrate, to escape war, for example. Emigration describes people leaving a country, whereas immigration is the term for when people move into a country.
Look at the following reasons for migrating and classify them into push factors or pull factors. Push
● Unemployment ● Environmental disasters ● Safety ● Educational opportunities ● Flooding ● Famine ● Religious persecution ● War ● Good housing ● A failing economy ● Food ● Fear of torture ● Healthcare ● A warm climate ● Ability to practise religion freely ● Fertile land ● Poverty ● Job opportunities