The dichotomy of moving/staying is a common point of departure in geographical migration
research. Since the late nineteenth century, when Ernest George Ravenstein formulated …

Migration has generally been viewed as a spatial process meaning that time is implicit and
when it is invoked it is usually focussed on the processual, on the journey, the life course …

The aim of this paper is not to present a theory, in the sense of a set of interrelated concepts,
definitions and propositions which seek to explain and predict certain phenomena, but …

Migration and distance has been of scholarly interest ever since Ravenstein (1885) noted
that most migrants proceed only a short distance. He thereby confirmed the opinion of A …

Current literature views migration from two vantage points. The first perspective considers
the effect of migration on area economies while the second perspective examines the …

Although demographers usually identify fertility, mortality, and migration as the three major
components of their field of study, in fact, studies of fertility and mortality have dominated …

Ever since the dawn of the age of mass migration, well over a century ago, scholars have
endeavoured to provide general explanations for the phenomenon of human migration …

Originally published in 1975, this volume examines conceptual and theoretical aspects of
the study of internal migration, both in chapters dealing specifically with theory and data and …

This collection of studies covers the economic, social, political and demographic impacts of
migration on origin and destination areas, and the attitudinal and behavioural influences that …

Background That migration is the most problematic of the population variables is taken as
given. Unlike the unique events of birth and death that define an individual's lifetime …