Economic Migration happens when a countries wealth is lower than the other one. Countries which lacks opportunity, businesses and a sufficient GDP(Gross Domestic Product) will attract less economic immigrants and its people is more likely to emigrate to wealthier places.
Immigration to United States
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Immigration in United States has been a major cause of population growth in the U.S. Foreigners from Europe often came to U.S for business opportunities and cheap land. People that came were mostly people whose jobs had been closed and from places that were either overcrowded or poor. For example professional steel workers from England went to America because of an economical downfall in England and started working on steel mills in Pittsburgh.
One of the main immigration movement to U.S started in 1851-1860 where a crop failure happened in Ireland. Irish potato weren't farmed and millions of people fled to U.S to escape the potato famine and starvation. In 1861-1870 time period the growing population of Prussia and German States outstripped the available land. Industrial Revolution didn't gave decent paying jobs and freedoms were limited, this led many German people to emigrate to United States. Italian Immigration happened due to dire poverty people living in southern Italy were living under horrific conditions and violence was a part of it. Land were poor and malnutrition was everywhere. This led thousands of Italians to emigrate into U.S
The economic migration happened in America due to its opportunities with life and wealth. This principle is same in the rest of the world too. Economic migration is dependent on push and pull factors on the rest of the world too. These factors may include more pull factors than push factors. These places are more likely to get Immigrants than other places as they have better life conditions than other places.
How Does Push and Pull Factors Affect Economic Migration
The push and pull factors are things that which attract or repel people. Those things Helped Industrialized cities to gain population from rural areas. These cities offered business opportunity and good paying jobs which attracted a lot of people. The economic migrants went from villages and small towns to big cities, thus overpopulating the city which had major effects on pollution and living standards. When people came to the cities in masses, they quickly became laborers to the factories. Some of these factories worked over 18 hours a day as a result people got sick and powerless. They either became thief or worked as laborers hours a day for nearly nothing. This affected many cities during the industrial revolution. Cities got dirtier, air became polluted, streets became crowded and the line between extreme rich and extreme poverty broke, meaning that near a luxury house you would see a rundown building used for a thief or a very poor family.
The Cause of Rural to Urban Migration
Rural to urban migration had been caused by agricultural revolution. Many people were left jobless because of the new machines. They went to cities to get new jobs. The abundance of the jobs in Industrial City's was a Pull factor. However factory pollution and child labor was a Push Factor for them but business opportunities in industrialized city's were their only hope so they migrated from rural places to urban city's.
Immigration to United States
Immigration in United States has been a major cause of population growth in the U.S. Foreigners from Europe often came to U.S for business opportunities and cheap land. People that came were mostly people whose jobs had been closed and from places that were either overcrowded or poor. For example professional steel workers from England went to America because of an economical downfall in England and started working on steel mills in Pittsburgh.
One of the main immigration movement to U.S started in 1851-1860 where a crop failure happened in Ireland. Irish potato weren't farmed and millions of people fled to U.S to escape the potato famine and starvation. In 1861-1870 time period the growing population of Prussia and German States outstripped the available land. Industrial Revolution didn't gave decent paying jobs and freedoms were limited, this led many German people to emigrate to United States. Italian Immigration happened due to dire poverty people living in southern Italy were living under horrific conditions and violence was a part of it. Land were poor and malnutrition was everywhere. This led thousands of Italians to emigrate into U.S
The economic migration happened in America due to its opportunities with life and wealth. This principle is same in the rest of the world too. Economic migration is dependent on push and pull factors on the rest of the world too. These factors may include more pull factors than push factors. These places are more likely to get Immigrants than other places as they have better life conditions than other places.
How Does Push and Pull Factors Affect Economic Migration
The push and pull factors are things that which attract or repel people. Those things Helped Industrialized cities to gain population from rural areas. These cities offered business opportunity and good paying jobs which attracted a lot of people. The economic migrants went from villages and small towns to big cities, thus overpopulating the city which had major effects on pollution and living standards. When people came to the cities in masses, they quickly became laborers to the factories. Some of these factories worked over 18 hours a day as a result people got sick and powerless. They either became thief or worked as laborers hours a day for nearly nothing. This affected many cities during the industrial revolution. Cities got dirtier, air became polluted, streets became crowded and the line between extreme rich and extreme poverty broke, meaning that near a luxury house you would see a rundown building used for a thief or a very poor family.
The Cause of Rural to Urban Migration
Rural to urban migration had been caused by agricultural revolution. Many people were left jobless because of the new machines. They went to cities to get new jobs. The abundance of the jobs in Industrial City's was a Pull factor. However factory pollution and child labor was a Push Factor for them but business opportunities in industrialized city's were their only hope so they migrated from rural places to urban city's.
Used Sites:
http://www.pbs.org/destinationamerica/usim_wn_flash.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_United_States
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Resources/unitedstates.cfm
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