SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Remittance, International Inequality, Florian Znaniecki
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6. long range migrants move to urban areas a. want to go where economic growth is: most migrants are adults, over long distances, males migrate more than females, usually true, chain migration, over short distances, females migrate more than males a. rural to urban migration. Availability of the other end usually tempt people to migrate diffusion migration info travels through existing networks and social relationships migration happens through existing networks of socially linked location movement is fastest and furthest through existing ties migration is fastest and furthest where ties exist between locations diffusion is limited between points that are weakly connected migration is limited between points that are weakly connected diffusion creates new social ties and strengthen old ones migration creates new social ties and strengthened old ones strong, redundant connections create social segregation strong redundant connections promote social segregation.
