Drivers of Human Migration: A Review of Scientific Evidence
Department for E-Governance and Administration, Danube University Krems, Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30, 3500 Krems an der Donau, Austria
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Soc. Sci. 2021, 10(1), 21; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10010021
Received: 19 November 2020
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Revised: 22 December 2020
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Accepted: 11 January 2021
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Published: 14 January 2021
(This article belongs to the Section International Migration)
While migration research is at the peak of its productivity, a substantial gap persists between scientific evidence and policy action. As societal complexity increases, migration theory loses track on the numerous factors of human migration; the information on the most relevant factors affecting human migration (i.e., migration drivers), essential for policy decision-making, are hidden and dispersed across the ever-growing literature. Introducing a novel approach to conducting a literature review, emphasizing an unbiased selection of literature and the approach to analysing literature by coding, we collect evidence on the most pertinent migration factors. The study establishes a methodology for a quick but rigorous, collaborative gathering of evidence, as well as an initial inventory and an interactive map of nearly 200 factors working at different migration corridors.
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Keywords:
migration drivers; migration factors; review methodology; evidence collection; relevance ranking
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Pitoski D, Lampoltshammer TJ, Parycek P. Drivers of Human Migration: A Review of Scientific Evidence. Social Sciences. 2021; 10(1):21. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10010021
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