Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi
Abstract
In this paper the author surveys the most recent literature
on internal migration in developing nations. He also treats briefly
the history of migration in the economically advanced countries and
more recent international migration. After discussing the significance
of the problems associated with migration and reviewing the noneconomic
literature on the subject, he concentrates on recent economic
theories of rural-urban migration and examines the rapidly growing
number of quantitative and econometric migration studies.
The paper concludes with suggestions for future research
priorities in light of what we now seem to know about migration and
development
