Push and pull factors
What Push and pull factors means in History B Schools History Project GCSE, as defined for OCR.
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The reasons that drove Italian and Eastern European Jewish migrants to Britain, such as rural poverty, political upheaval, religious persecution and violent pogroms.
The forces driving large-scale Irish migration to Britain in the 19th century, including extreme poverty and the Great Famine as reasons for leaving.
Religious persecution acted as a push factor, while economic opportunities in Britain's expanding port cities acted as a pull factor.
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