HIST 114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Santa Barbara City College, Religious Persecution, Chain Migration
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Human beings have always traveled from place to place. They also hunted for land sometimes with more food or better economic conditions. They have sometimes fled to escape poverty or have been forced to flee the invaders who have taken over their territories. As people leave to live in another country or region their movement is called emigration. It"s called immigration when people come to live in a new country or region. For two underlying reasons people move from their home country to settle in a new land. The first explanation is that adverse factors force them to abandon their native land. People are pushed by such things as poverty, religious persecution or political oppression to emigrate from their native land or area. The second reason people emigrate is that they are drawn to the new land by favorable circumstances in the new country. People immigrate to new countries in search of resources that do not exist.
