Question

Explain in detail about the various causes of migration.

Answer 1

• Ecological or Natural causes of migration:

1. The causes that operate under this category are natural ones. They include Volcanic eruption, mankind changed considerably.
2. At this stage, people continued to move from one region to another in search of fertile land for cultivation.

• Economic causes of migration:

1. Economy is one of the most important causes of human migration from one area to another.
2. The availability of fertile agricultural land, employment opportunities, development of technology, etc. are some of the economic causes that attract the migration.

• Socio-cultural causes of migration:

1. Socio-cultural causes also play some roles in the process of migration.
2. For example, women after marriage.

• Demographic causes of migration:

1. In a demographic sense, the population composition like age and sex, over population, and under population are the major causes of migration.
2. Over population is considered as a push factor and under population to be a pull factor in the context of migration.

•  Political causes of migration:
  Various political causes like colonization, wars, Government policies, etc. have always been playing important role in human migration from time to time.