yazmine

migration

PUSH AND PULL FACTOR

• are those events that push people out of there old location
• pull factors are the attraction that lure migrants to a new location.

JEWISH MIGRATION

• jewish people were driven from Israel
• in the Middle Ages Jews often faced prejudice and discrimination
• in 1290 England expelled its Jewish community

CUBANS FREE COMMUNISM

• 1959 Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba
• he promised to set democracy in Cuba
• once in power he established a communist dictatorship
• Cubans who spoke out against castro's policies were inprisoned
• Cubans disillusioned by his policies and communism fled to United States

THE FLIGHT OF AFGHAN REFUGEES

• 1979 some citizens of Afghanistan fled there country
• after soviets invaded and a long civil war began
• after attack on World Trade Center in 2001 United States declared war
• against terrorism.
• to escape fighting afghan refugees fled into Pakistan and neighboring countries

BURUNDI AND RWANDA

• 1994 fighting began in central Africa between the Hutu and Tutsi tribes

guest workers in Germany

IRISH POTATOES FAMINE

drought in the Sahel

the Atlantic slave trade