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The macrodynamics of international migration as a socio-cultural diffusion process. Part B: applications
Technological Forecasting and Social Change
|December 1, 1992
Abstract:
"This study formulates a model of the macrodynamics of international migration using a differential equation to capture the push-pull forces that propel it. The model's architecture rests on the functioning of information feedback between settled friends and family at the destination and potential emigrants at the origin.... Two specific paradigms of diverse nature serve to demonstrate the model's tenets and pertinence, one being Greek emigration to the United States since 1820, and the other total out-migration from Cyprus since statehood (1946)."
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AmericasAsiaBehaviorCyprusDemographic FactorsDestinationDeveloped CountriesDeveloping CountriesEuropeFamily And HouseholdFriends And RelativesGreeceInformationInternational Migration--determinantsMathematical ModelMediterranean CountriesMigrantsMigrationModels, TheoreticalMotivationNorth AmericaNorthern AmericaOriginPopulationPopulation DynamicsPsychological FactorsResearch MethodologySouthern EuropeUnited StatesWestern AsiaMore Related Videos
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