Economic Geography of Migration


Voluntary Migration

Involuntary Migration

  • Forced
  • Impelled

Push Pull Model (Ravenstein and Lee )

  • Ravenstein's Laws of Migration
  • Push and Pull factors
  • Intervening obstacles

Labor Migration Theory

  • Assumptions
  • The model
  • What really happens

Consequences of Migration

Assignment for Next Time

Read pp. 107-111 Come to class with a basic understanding of how the gravity model works.

 

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