Systems approach to a theory of rural-urban migration

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Author(s)
Mabogunje, A. L.
Publication language
English
Pages
18pp
Date published
01 Jan 1970
Type
Articles
Keywords
Urban

In the growing literature on the study of migration, two theoretical issues have attracted the greatest attention, namely, why people migrate and how far they move. A simple model for explaining the reasons why people move has been formulated in terms of the “pull- push” hypothesis.