(b) Socio-Political Factor

Man is a social being and he likes to live with his kith and kin. Generally, the people having a common religion or language, or social customs like to live together. On the other hand, a person would like to migrate to some other place if he is living among the people belonging to some other culture or customs. Many people migrate to places of religious importance.

Migration of people to places like Badrinath, Tirupati and Varanasi though generally temporary is due to religious factors. The impact of the social factors is more clearly seen in the concentration of people belonging to a particular community in one locality of urban area or in a particular city.

Religious or social suppression of the minority communities can be an important push factor if the majority community is not tolerant to the other community.

(c) Demographic factor

Age is the important demographic factor. Young population is more mobile than the children and old age population. This is because young people mostly move either for work/better opportunities or further study.

(d) Political factors

It is related to the government policy are responsible for migration. This factor is becoming increasingly important in the modern times. Government can influence the incidence rates and directions of the migrations to a great extent.

In some cases, the minority communities are discriminated against, and they are thus forced out of the countries. Partition of India into India and Pakistan at the time of independence resulted in large scale migration of people between the two countries.