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Discuss the Economic, Behavioural and Social Theories on Migration.

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Migration — a change of usual residence across an administrative boundary — has been theorised for over a century, and the explanations fall into three families. Economic theories treat the move as a calculation about income; behavioural theories treat it as a perception filtered through an imperfectly known world; social theories treat it as an…

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  • Economic Theories: Migration as Calculation
  • The Empirical Bedrock — Ravenstein and Lee
  • Neoclassical and Expected-Income Models
  • Household and Structural Correctives
  • Behavioural Theories: Migration as Perception
  • Social Theories: Migration as an Embedded Process
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion
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