Economic Approaches Of Migration Analysis

The three economic approaches to migration give primacy to the economic aspects of migration. They discuss how these aspects associated with the place of origin and destination regulates the movement of population, what pattern the movement follows. One of the economic approaches is the theory about the empirically and mathematically verified generalized patterns of migration. It originates from the contributions made by E.G Ravenstein. His laws of migration appeared during the year 1885-89.He published two famous and classic studies in 1885 and 1889 on the laws of migration in which he made empirical generalizations regarding patterns of migration. The following are the basic generations that he made.
The migration process is predominantly

It is an alternative model of migration. This approach is not concerned with empirically rested generalizations. It is situation-oriented approach dealing with socio-economic differentials existing at the place of origin and at the place of destination. Those differentials determine the migratory movement. The pull-push hypothesis is the central thrust of this approach. According to this view point migration is the result of the interplay between the expulsive forces at the place of origin and the attractive forces at the place of destination. The approach takes into account all possible factors that determine the movement of population. The most prominent name associated with this approach is Everett S Lee .He acknowledges the relevance of Raven stein's theory of migration. He identifies the factors of migration and examines the volume of migration and the characteristic of migrants. Migration is a source of permanent or semi permanent change of residence. It may of short or long duration. The act of migration involves the place of origin, the place of destination and the set of intervening opportunities that affect

It focuses on migration as one of the integrated social processes and as an integral part of the larger social system. It is the society that provides a social context to migration and makes the process of migration socially conditioned. The socio-structural and cultural conditions affect the process of migration and in turn are affected by the process. Thus the movement of population becomes an institutionally and normatively or culturally determined phenomenon. Its occurrence depends on institutional suitability. For example the rapid process of spatial mobility of population, particularly the long distance migration is institutionally or structurally and culturally suitable for and consistent with the urban industrial society while the immobility or the slow process of spatial mobility is structurally consistent with the traditional rural agrarian