After the Second World War, migratory movements towards Western European countries increased significantly. In addition, characteristics of migration towards these countries also has changed. Many push and pull factors, such as particularly decolonization process, foreign labor requirement, economic crises, globalization, the rise of neoliberal economic policies and conflicts in third countries, have been influential in changing the characteristics of these migratory movements. These factors makes difficult to explain these migratory movements within the framework of a single migration theory. The main purpose of this study is to divide migratory movements towards Western Europe after the Second World War into the processes through historical breakpoints and to examine them within the framework of macro level migration theories based on the economy and dependency in general
