THEORIES OF POST-WAR MIGRATION

PUSH FACTORS such as...

• Poverty
• Lack of economic opportunities
• Political strife/oppression
• Lack of civil/human rights

PULL FACTORS such as...

• Socio-economic opportunities e.g. employment, education, health care etc
• Famly links
• Former colonial ties
• Higher standard of living
• Political/social/religious freedom

CRITICISMS...

• Oversimplifies a complex and multifaceted topic

• Castels and Miller (2003)

Global migration trends characterised by five features...

• Acceleration- greater numbers than ever before
• Diversification- in terms of a complex array of motivations behind migration
• Globalisation- more countries involved in sending and receiving than ever before
• Feminization- more female migrants to meet demands for domestic work, sex tourism and 'mail order brides'
• Politicization- migration seen as valuable at the same time as threatening

CRITICISMS:

• Based on the notion of a 'state'- maybe migration should be discussed in reference to different urban regions?

• Migration a product of interconnections between micro and macro processes
• Macro refers to wider processes like economic conditions such as demand for more labour power and political conditions such as conflict and instability
• Micro refers to individual knowledge, resources and understanding of migrants

CRITICISM:

• Vague