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Is a Migration Decision a Migration Decision?

Beryl Nicholson

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In this paper the author tries to
make out that a migration decision
is not, in fact, a migration decision.
It is the consequence of other,
unrelated decisions. It must follow
from this that there can be no
general theory of migration either,
so it is futile to go on looking for it.
Instead, we need to approach the
problem more directly, and to study
the kinds of decisions which can
and do lead to migration.
What we in fact do when we define
migration according to the
conventional parameters, is to
adopt uncritically the definition of
demography. This definition has
been made for a limited and
specific purpose, and without
reference to what might be required
for sociological analysis. This is
why the author stresses a need for
redefining the concept of migration
by borrowing a term of the niche
from social anthropology.
Her further step is to develop a
framework for analysing decisions
to migrate or not within the
Hirschman's model — exit, voice
and loyalty. This model avoids the
determinism of the »push-pull«
approach and the reduction of the
decision to a single dimension
which a cost-benefit model implies.
In advocating a new approach to
the study of migration, the author
in no way wishes to imply that we
should discard the more traditional
research and start again. But, by redefining migration in sociological
terms we give it »access« to
sociology.

Ključne riječi

Hrčak ID:

119430

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/119430

Datum izdavanja:

10.12.1980.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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