The Economic Adaptation of Immigrants: A New Theoretical Perspective

In: International migration review: IMR, Band 12, Heft 1, S. 3-38

Abstract

Classical "functionalist" theories of migration are compared in this paper with neo-Marxian models and both are found inadequate to explain international trends in migration and the Canadian experience of immigration since World War II. An alternative "global systems model" of international and internal migration is put forward which takes into account the movements within and between industrial and postindustrial societies, as well as movements from less developed to more developed areas.