pull factor - a factor that draws or attracts people to another location; usually positive in nature, push factor - a factor that causes people to leave their homelands and migrate to another region; usually negative in nature, immigrate - to come to live permanently in a foreign country, culture - the enduring behaviors, ideas, and traditions shared by a large group of people, assimilate - to absorb a new culture; the way a group of people become part of a new culture, immigrant - a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country, Ellis Island - the immigration processing center that opened in New York Harbor in 1892; processed mostly immigrants from Europe, Angel Island - the immigrant processing center that opened in San Francisco Bay in 1910; processed mostly immigrants from Asia, Examples of Push Factors - economic troubles, overcrowding, poverty, Examples of Pull Factors - jobs, greater freedom, land,

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