GEOG 3070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Countercurrent Exchange
11 Jul 2017
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The majority of migrants travel only a short distance. Migrants going long distances generally go to one of the great centers of commerce or industry. Each current of migration produces a compensating counter-current. Natives of towns are less migratory than those of rural areas. Females are more migration within their country of birth, but males, more frequently venture beyond. Large towns grow more by migration than by natural increase. Push: negative conditions that compel people to migrate. Less job, harsh weather, higher taxes, high crime. That when people in the 3rd world get rich they tend to migrate more. Migration involves the interplay of macro- (structural variables: drought, economic collapse) and micro-(household or individual) that are not easily grasped through a simple push-pull. That the number of movement flows between an origin and a destination is directly proportional to the number of opportunities at the destination and inversely proportional to the number of intervening opportunities.
