Migration System Theory

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and describe the immigration phenomena as an economic relationship between 'sending' and receiving' countries, wherein the primary motivation of the immigrants in moving in to developed countries to work is to gain economic resource for themselves and their family (the immigrants).
Migration System theory is not entirely economical in its perspective. In fact, this theory fuses together the economic, political, and cultural perspectives that can be found in the study of immigration through the years all over the world, which basically concerns the Eastern and Western nations. In the economic level, Migration System theory pertains to the need of the immigrants to find additional source of financial support for themselves and their family, while the developed nation that employ these immigrants have also the economic need of cheap human labor, and this problem can be resolved through the employment of laborers and workers from Third World and underdeveloped countries, which can be ...

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Market, World Systems, and Social Capital theories. Paul Kennedy, meanwhile, introduces his readers to the new concept of Transnationalism, which is a new perspective in which immigration is explained and analyzed. These four theories will be discussed and analyzed in this paper, with particular notice on the similarities and differences of these theories to the Migration System theory.
Massey had presented three important theories explaining the immigration phenomena. The Segmented Labor Market theory explains that because of the scarcity and expensiveness of human labor in developed countries, companies and businesses have decided to employ workers outside the country specifically ...

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