A theory of migration: the aspirations-capabilities framework.

Autor/in	Haas, Hein de
Titel	A theory of migration: the aspirations-capabilities framework. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Eine Theorie der Migration: der Zusammenhang zwischen Ambitionen und Fähigkeiten.
Quelle	In: Comparative migration studies, 9 (2021) Art. 8, 35 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2214-594X
DOI	10.1186/s40878-020-00210-4
Schlagwörter	Motivationsforschung; Soziale Mobilität; Leistungsmotivation; Motivation; Freiheit; Migration; Migrationsforschung; Mobilitätsforschung; Sozialer Aufstieg; Qualifikation; Theorie; Migrant
Abstract	"This paper elaborates an aspirations-capabilities framework to advance our understanding of human mobility as an intrinsic part of broader processes of social change. In order to achieve a more meaningful understanding of agency and structure in migration processes, this framework conceptualises migration as a function of aspirations and capabilities to migrate within given sets of perceived geographical opportunity structures. It distinguishes between the instrumental (means-to-an-end) and intrinsic (directly wellbeing-affecting) dimensions of human mobility. This yields a vision in which moving and staying are seen as complementary manifestations of migratory agency and in which human mobility is defined as people's capability to choose where to live, including the option to stay, rather than as the act of moving or migrating itself. Drawing on Berlin's concepts of positive and negative liberty (as manifestations of the widely varying structural conditions under which migration occurs) this paper conceptualises how macro-structural change shapes people's migratory aspirations and capabilities. The resulting framework helps to understand the complex and often counter-intuitive ways in which processes of social transformation and 'development' shape patterns of migration and enable us to integrate the analysis of almost all forms of migratory mobility within one meta-conceptual framework." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2021/3