GEOG 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Forced Migration, Unintended Consequences
23 Oct 2018
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Theories of international migrations (labor migration: 2 distinct approaches (micro & macro) Agency: rational economic, micro- level benefit analysis, decision making models, emphasize human agency, migration as voluntary self betterment. Neoclassical economic theory: international migration is related to the global supply and demand for labor. Nations with scarce labor supply and high demand will have high wages that pull immigrants in from nations with a surplus of labor. The new economics of migration: similar economic assumptions of rational decision making but focus on families and households. Emphasis differential access to employment opportunities in destination countries produces restricted and unpredictable gender and generational relationships. Structure: involuntary casualties of larger scale structural forces operating at national, transnational and global levels. Segment (dual) labor market theory (piore 1979) argues that so called first world economies are structured so as to require a certain level of immigration.
