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Rural–urban migration — AQA GCSE History Definition | GradeGen

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GCSE History · key term

Rural–urban migration

Definition

Movement from the countryside to towns and cities.

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AQA GCSE History · 8145

Paper 2

At the same time, expanding industrial towns offered employment. These linked push and pull factors encouraged rural–urban migration.
Revise: Migration Patterns

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