Toward a Development Paradigm of Migration, with Particular Reference to Third World Settings

Migration, Human Resource Transfers, and Development Contexts: A Logit Analysis of Venezuelan Data

“…Finally, these empirical analyses of Venezuela lend support to the notion that places with different development characteristics generate migration streams differing in type, magnitude, explanation, and impact, a perspective articulated in Brown and Sanders' (1981) "development paradigm of migration," but only recently given empirical attention (Brown and Goetz 1987;Findley 1982Findley , 1986Bilsborrow et al 1987;McDevitt et al 1986). Previous studies of less developed settings have tended to ignore the importance of context effects, and those which incorporate place differentials tend to state them simplistically.…”

“…Migrant selectivity characteristics also varied with development, though not always in ways suggested by conventional social science wisdom, indicating, therefore, a topic for future research. Given the recency of interest in development influences on migration (Brown and Sanders 1981;Brown and Jones 1985), identifying this topic is itself an important gain.…”

“…A solution to the problem of overgeneralized migration models is provided by Brown and Sanders' (1981) "development paradigm of migration." This argues that economic growth involves structural changes in society which, in turn, alter the role of specific migration factors; and since development varies in character from place to place, as well as through time, differences in migration processes are to be expected (Zelinsky 1971;Goldstein 1981;Urzua 1981;Peek and Standing 1982).…”

Migration in Third World Settings, Uneven Development, and Conventional Modeling: A Case Study of Costa Rica

“…This issue is addressed by Brown and Sanders's (1981) "development paradigm" of migration, which melds macro-economic structure and individual decision making by emphasizing the importance of regional character or development milieu effects. This issue is addressed by Brown and Sanders's (1981) "development paradigm" of migration, which melds macro-economic structure and individual decision making by emphasizing the importance of regional character or development milieu effects.…”

“…formulations that explicitly treat the migrationdevelopment link (Okun 1968: Greenwood 1975aGober-Meyers 1978a, 197%: Salvatore 1981. whereas Brown and Sanders (1981) argue that the role of migration process components may differ considerably across development milieus.x One test of their proposition is to estimate migration models for selected regions o r subarcas within a country and then to examine model diflerences in terms of a development perspective. this approach has rarely becn applied t o Third World settings, Greenwood's (1978) study of Mexico being one exception.…”