{"id":21433,"date":"2023-01-02T18:27:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T16:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=21433"},"modified":"2023-08-13T11:29:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T09:29:11","slug":"push-and-pull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2023\/01\/push-and-pull\/","title":{"rendered":"Push and pull?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having been confronted with the “pull” doctrine now many times, I went for further literature. The best summary that I have found is by the European Asylum Support Office 2016<\/a><\/p>\n

On the conceptual level, there are serious limitations with the commonly used (yet often critiqued) push and pull framework as an explanatory tool for migration decision-making processes … it makes strong assumptions about the way individuals respond to stimuli; it presumes that an individual can make cost\/benefit decisions based on full information, in markets tending to a general equilibrium, far from the complex reality of human mobility. As such, the model fails to explain why, for instance, people respond differently to the same \u2018push\u2019 and \u2018pull\u2019 forces, and why emigration and immigration occur simultaneously in the same area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There seem to be many more limitations than currently assumed.<\/p>\n

factors explaining migration 1) often originate in the household\/community\/country of origin (e.g. unemployment, gender discrimination, conflict), while factors influencing migration 2) are more likely to be destination-specific (e.g. presence of co-ethnic community members, perception of the country as having a permissive asylum regime, language similarities) or process- specific (e.g. a smuggler has chosen a destination).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another key issue, is the high death toll<\/a> that is of course known to refugees.<\/p>\n

Studying migration flows across the Mediterranean, particularly along two routes (the western and central Mediterranean routes), Altai Consulting found that social, political, and economic instability inspired migration flows but that individuals fleeing greater threats to their personal security were willing to traverse more dangerous and uncertain migration routes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So we are dealing with<\/p>\n