Theories of International Labor Migration: An Overview

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Family size and structure

• Migration forms

  • Internal displacement
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Economics facilitating travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration

Methods

• Other

  • Agent-based modeling

• Qualitative research

  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • International