STRUCTURAL DETERMINANTS OF MIGRATION
A large number of factors associated with the development process influence patterns of migration in the Third World. They may be divided into rural push factors and urban pull factors.
RURAL PUSH FACTORS
1. Population-growth rates. One of the most com- mon explanations for out- migration is the high rate of population growth in rural areas. This informed economic models of migration in the 1950s and 1960s in which migration was seen as a movement of surplus labour. However population growth alone is not the main cause of emigration. The effects of demographic