Research on Migration in Africa: Past, Present, and Future, African Rural Employment Paper No. 2.

Autor/in	Byerlee, Derek
Institution	Michigan State Univ., East Lansing. Dept. of Agricultural Economics.
Titel	Research on Migration in Africa: Past, Present, and Future, African Rural Employment Paper No. 2.
Quelle	(1972), (38 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Capital; Demography; Developing Nations; Economic Development; Labor Market; Literature Reviews; Methods; Migrants; Migration Patterns; Public Policy; Research Needs; Rural to Urban Migration; Rural Urban Differences; Socioeconomic Influences; Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kapital; Demografie; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Method; Methode; Migrantin; Öffentliche Ordnung; Forschungsbedarf; Landflucht; Stadt-Land-Beziehung; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Afrika
Abstract	African nations have been experiencing rapid rates of urbanization accompanied by serious problems of urban unemployment due to the rate of rural-urban migration and the lack of an adequate understanding of the migration process for economic policy formulation. The aim of this paper was to review the present knowledge of African rural-urban migration, suggesting future directions for improved methodology and theory for economic research on migration. Focus was on: (1) Migrants (identity) and the Migrant Process; (2) Determinants of Rural-Urban Migration (noneconomic factors and income differentials); (3) Implications of Migration for Economic Development (distortions in factor markets, migration as capital transfer, and externalities associated with migration). The literature revealed that younger, better educated people have dominated rural-urban migration in Africa; economic motives have been important in determining the rate of rural-urban migration (little agreement as to the relevant economic variables in the decision to migrate); divergence between the private and social returns of migration (almost no research establishing the divergence magnitude). Future migration theory should include the human capital approach; methodology should utilize sample survey techniques, rather than unreliable census data, and migration research should be linked with policy concerning education, population distribution, industrial decentralization, and rural-urban labor markets. (JC)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC