A Philosophical Dichotomy in Migration Research

White, Stephen E.

doi:10.1111/j.0033-0124.1980.00006.x

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“…The proposed research agenda on migration decision-making builds on a line of research initiated already more than 30 years ago (e.g. Fawcett 1985, see also White 1980), but greatly benefits from recent state-of-the-art findings in a variety of cognitive subfields across the social sciences. The process of mental time travel to possible, imagined futures, the complex dynamics of decisionmaking and the role of immediate and expected emotions have been explored in neuroscience, cognitive, social, developmental, and clinical psychology -all disciplines that have so far had little contact with core migration theorising.…”

Section: Conclusion: Imagining a Way Forwardmentioning

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Imagining mobility: the prospective cognition question in migration research

Koikkalainen

Kyle

2015

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Section: Conclusion: Imagining a Way Forwardmentioning

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Imagining mobility: the prospective cognition question in migration research

Koikkalainen

Kyle

2015

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…The Macroeconomic Perspective Over two decades ago, White (1980) recognized a philosophical dichotomy in migration research between macro and micro approaches. From the macro perspective, migration was regarded solely as an empirical event; a largely preordained response to the stimulus of potentially higher income at some other residential location.…”

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Migration Decisions of Dual-earner Families: An Application of Multilevel Modeling

Swain

Garasky

2006

J Fam Econ Iss

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A comprehensive framework for guiding analyses of internal migration is lacking. This study contributes to the family migration literature in three important ways. We develop a multilevel theoretical framework emphasizing an integration of individual-, family-, and neighborhood-level effects; introduce multilevel statistical modeling; and explicitly assess how effects of economic-based explanatory variables vary by gender. Our data are from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). We find that the likelihood of a family migrating is affected by economic and noneconomic factors, some of which vary by gender. We add to the dual-earner migration literature by finding that wives are not likely to be tied-movers, but husbands are likely to be tied-stayers. Neighborhood factors also are important to the decision to migrate.

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“…Cadwallader (1992, p. 4) noted that the macro literature is very much grounded in the neoclassical economics literature with much attention being devoted to interregional wage di¤er-entials and human capital, whereas the micro literature is closely tied to the general framework of choice behavior as developed by psychologists. White (1980) set out the di¤erences as a ''philosophical dichotomy in migration research'' between objective and cognitive perspectives. Stage of the life-cycle is now considered to be one of the strongest predictors of individual-level migration decisions, yet a majority of macro studies do not contain much of any demographic disaggregation.…”

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Age articulation of U.S. inter-metropolitan migration flows

Plane¹,

Heins²

2003

The Annals of Regional Science

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A fundamental divide in migration research has existed between aggregate studies of movement among geographic regions and micro studies of individual migrant behavior. Micro-scale studies have highlighted the importance of stage of life-cycle in predicting movement propensities, whereas many aggregate studies have focused on age-aggregated data summed over all origins for in-migration and over all destinations for out-migration. In this paper we show that if data for functional metropolitan-centered regions are employed, and if origin-destination specific streams of movement are analyzed, the age-specific patterns of inter-metropolitan migration within the United States cluster into distinctive patterns of flow representative of key stages of the life-course. In order to expose and portray a rich, age-articulated geography of U.S. migration we aggregate county-to-county migration flow data from the 1990 census for extended metropolitan regions: Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Economic Areas. We calculate destination-specific out-migration rates broken down into 17 age groups for each origin-destination-specific migration stream between pairs of Economic Areas and present the results of a factor analysis of these flow-specific age profiles. We use the factor scores to cluster the very large number of origin-destination-specific age profiles and find that seven characteristic types emerge reflecting key mobility stages of the life course. We analyze the distinctive characteristics of the migration flows in each cluster and based on the prevalence of flows of each type within streams of gross in- and gross out-migration we present a typology of the 172 BEA Economic Areas. Our conclusion is that better understanding the age articulation of origin-destination-specific flow patterns would help advance regional science migration research. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003JEL classification: J61, O15, R23,

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A Philosophical Dichotomy in Migration Research

Cited by 23 publications

References 20 publications

Imagining mobility: the prospective cognition question in migration research

Imagining mobility: the prospective cognition question in migration research

Migration Decisions of Dual-earner Families: An Application of Multilevel Modeling

Age articulation of U.S. inter-metropolitan migration flows

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