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The Economic Rationale for Migration

In: Migrants in Agricultural Development

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  • J. A. Mollett

    (University of Oxford)

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Provided migration is freely determined and not caused by repression of one kind or another, it is usually prompted by people’s desire to improve their lives (especially their incomes) and those of their children. When people emigrate they do so in response to sound economic incentives, or, at least, they appear to be sound when the decision to move is taken. Powerful economic forces are always at work, influencing the scale of benefits and losses which migration brings. These are dynamic forces; their impact changes over time. Migration is a complex process, however, not dominated by economic pressures alone, it takes place against a much wider background involving, for example, social, biological, political and cultural influences.

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  • J. A. Mollett, 1991. "The Economic Rationale for Migration," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: J. A. Mollett (ed.), Migrants in Agricultural Development, chapter 2, pages 9-21, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-11830-4_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11830-4_2
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