Zimbabweans caught attempting to cross into South Africa. Image credit photoshelter.com
ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Migration: International Migrations
- This is where people leave their home countries or continents and migrate to other countries.
- Examples are whereby people migrate from Mozambique into Zimbabwe and from Zimbabwe to Botswana and South Africa.
- People move to other countries for several reasons, which include:
- Seeking better working conditions for examples teachers, nurses and doctors from Zimbabwe
- Seeking employment for example from southern Africa to mines in South Africa
- Lower taxation rates for example in Botswana
- Setting up business in areas of cheap labour for example industrialists in Europe and America coming to Africa
- Pushed by hunger and wars or religious persecution
- Shopping for better and cheaper commodities.
- The usual pull and push factors shown in the table below:
| Push Factors | Pull Factors |
|---|---|
| War | Peace and political stability |
| Lack of services | Better services/Availability of services e.g electricity |
| Susceptible to natural disasters e.g. floods | Not susceptible to natural disasters |
| Lack of safety | Guarantee of safety |
| High Crime | Low crime |
| Drought | Adequate rain |
| Poverty | Economic opportunities |
| Unemployement | Employement |
| Barren/Unproductive land | Fertile land |
| Hostile/Arid climate | Habitable/Auspicious environment |
| Less wealth | More wealth |
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