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Migration and Home Affairs

Definition(s)

The condition(s) or circumstance(s) in a country of origin that impel or stimulate emigration.

Source(s)

Derived by EMN from IOM Glossary on Migration, 2019.

Translations

  • BG: отблъскващ фактор
  • CS: push faktor
  • DE: Push-Faktor
  • EL: αιτία φυγής / παράγοντας απώθησης
  • EN: push factor
  • ES: factor de expulsión
  • ET: tõukefaktor
  • FI: työntötekijä
  • FR: facteur de répulsion
  • GA: toisc bhrú
  • HR: čimbenik odbijanja
  • HU: taszító tényező / push faktor
  • IT: fattore di spinta
  • LT: stūmimo veiksnys
  • LV: atgrūšanas faktors
  • MT: Fattur ta’ ripulsjoni / ta’ tbarrija
  • NL: push factor / afstotende factor
  • PL: czynik wypychający
  • PT: fator de afastamento / push factor
  • RO: factor de împingere / push factor
  • SK: nútiaci faktor / push faktor
  • SL: dejavnik potiska / dejavnik odbijanja
  • SV: push-faktor
  • NO: skyvfaktor (b); skuvfaktor (n)
  • KA: მიგრაციის მაიძულებელი (push) ფაქტორი
  • UK: фактор виштовхування
  • HY: վանող գործոն

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Note(s)

As recognised by the project European Reintegration Networking, this can be for a specific or a variety of reasons, e.g. declining economic opportunities or political instability may stimulate emigration.