Reviews of migration theories start from more classical and deterministic views and follow with more recent developments that consider networks, cumulative causation, planned behaviour, agency, and aspiration/capability frameworks. One of the less discussed dimensions is gender differences in...

Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant's country in the host region. Using Mexican migration data, we analyze the effects of the usual network variable and two additional origin-village-specific variables on migrants' location choice.

Die theoretische Modellierung und empirische Untersuchung von Kettenmigrationsprozessen folgt der These, dass bei der Entscheidung zur Migration soziale Beziehungen der Migranten von zentraler Bedeutung sind. Anhand eines Überblicks über die Literatur wird gezeigt, dass dieser Sachverhalt in...