SOC251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Norton Villiers Triumph, Immigration, Spatial Analysis
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Migration within a geographic system can be analyzed in terms of: origin destination flows (streams) Among the units compromising the geographic system (provinces in canada) Migration streams and of volume of migration: ontario to alberta: 6,279, alberta to ontario: 5,265. Net migratory exchange: 6,279-5,265 = 1014 in favour of alberta (net gain for alberta) As with demographic and epidemiological transitions, societiies also undergo a mobility transition. Super advanced society: most moves are urban-urban, international migration is highly controlled (thus reduced, circular mobility is highly frequent (home to work journey, advanced communication technologies obviate the need for much potential geographic moblility. George k. zipf-distance/graviyt model: gravity opportunities, distance costs (material, psychic) The key is not distance per se, but the number of intervening opportunities (jobs, between places) Key factors of migration: differential economic opportunity structures across geographical places and the variation in the supply and demand for labour.
