Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these contributions to the study of migration, earliest first.
- Stark and Bloom set out the new economics of labour migration
- Ravenstein sets out his laws of migration
- Spain becomes a country of net immigration
- Piore publishes Birds of Passage
- Global forced displacement passes one hundred million on UNHCR figures
- Portes and Zhou describe segmented assimilation
Hints
- One of these is from the nineteenth century and the rest are from the last fifty years.
- 1885, 1979, 1985, 1993, around 2000, and 2022.
Show the answer
- Ravenstein sets out his laws of migration
- Piore publishes Birds of Passage
- Stark and Bloom set out the new economics of labour migration
- Portes and Zhou describe segmented assimilation
- Spain becomes a country of net immigration
- Global forced displacement passes one hundred million on UNHCR figures
Why
The century-long gap after Ravenstein is not an accident of scholarship. Migration theory was thin for as long as the phenomenon was treated as a simple response to wage differences; the burst of work from the late 1970s follows the discovery that flows persisted when the differentials that supposedly caused them narrowed.
Practise Contemporary Migration
The app has 6 more questions on this lesson, and keeps your place in the course. Sociology I is free to start.
More questions on Contemporary Migration
- Emigration rates tend to rise as a very poor country becomes richer, before falling again at higher income…
- Which observations does the simple push–pull model fail to account for?
- Complete the account of the theories that replaced simple push and pull.
- Dual labour market theory locates the primary driver of migration in destination economies rather than…
- Arrange the stages of the migration hump as income at origin rises.
- Push–pull models and network models disagree about why flows begin and why they persist. Sort each…
- In which year did Ravenstein publish the paper setting out his laws of migration?
- The share of Spain’s population holding foreign nationality and the share born abroad are effectively the…