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Migration

push and pull factors

• events that push people out of their old location.
• pull are the attractions that lure migrants to a new location.

Jewish migration

• under the Roman Empire Jewish people were driven from Israel.
• in the Middle Ages Jews in Europe often faced prejudice and discrimination.
• in 1290, England expelled its Jewish community.

CUBANS FLEE COMelUNISM

• in 1959 Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba.
• many Cubans fled on homemade boats in an attempt to reach the United States.

the flight of afghan refugees

• in 1979, some citizens of Afghanistan fled their country after the
• soviets invaded and a long civil war began.
• 2001 there were 5 million afghan refugees living in Pakistan.

Burundi and Rwanda

• in 1994 bitter fighting began in central Africa between the Hutu
• and the Tutsi of Burundi and Rwanda.

guest workers in Germany