... to focus upon the most significant factors stimulating migration in each circumstance. All migrations, whether they occur on the local, national or international scale, occur due to a combination of push and pull factors. Each migrant weighs these factors to determine whether they leave their homeland and migrate to an entirely new region, or they stay home and address possible problems within their society. Push factors, are problems such as war, famine, disease, and perhaps natural hazard that forces individuals to leave their home. Even after earthquakes, tornadoes and hurricanes, most countries do not see these factors as a stimulus to move. Perhaps due to the level of technology, they may have trusts that they can reduce such pushes or that they will not happen again during their lifetimes. If the migration is dominated by push factors, it becomes forced migration, and the migrants are referred to as refugees. Pull factors are ...

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