Editing Emigration (section)

=== Push factors ===
* Poor living conditions or [[overcrowding]]
* Lack of employment or entrepreneurial opportunities
* Lack of educational opportunities
* Threat of arrest or punishment
* Persecution or intolerance based on race, religion, gender or sexual orientation
* Political corruption, lack of [[government transparency]] or [[freedom of speech]]
* Inability to find a spouse for marriage
* Lack of [[Religious freedom|freedom to choose religion]], or to choose no religion
* [[Resource depletion]], [[scarcity]] or [[austerity]]
* [[Conscription|Military draft]], warfare or [[terrorism]]
* Expulsion by armed force or coercion
* [[Recession]] or [[economic collapse]]
* [[Famine]] or drought
* [[Cultural imperialism|Cultural fights]] with [[Auto-segregation|other cultural groups]]