Migration bingo

Exercise and reference answers

Clues and terms

1. Clue

   Poverty or disaster that drives people out.

   Item

   Push factor

2. Clue

   Work and wages that draw people in.

   Item

   Pull factor

3. Clue

   Contract system for colonial labour.

   Item

   Girmit

4. Clue

   Migrant by place of birth.

   Item

   Life-time

5. Clue

   Money sent home by migrants.

   Item

   Remittance

6. Clue

   State receiving the most migrants.

   Item

   Maharashtra

7. Clue

   State with most net out-migrants.

   Item

   Uttar Pradesh

8. Clue

   Main reason women migrate.

   Item

   Marriage

9. Clue

   Where marriage migration is reversed.

   Item

   Meghalaya

Instructions

Read each clue and tap the term it describes.

Explanation