Culture and Migration: a Tale about Fear and Hope (with an Empirical Analysis on European Union Case)
The human movements across borders, societies and cultures are not running in an “empty space”: the structural characteristics of the economic systems, the institutional architecture of societies, the cultural paradigm and the power relations between different social groups, all define the magnitude...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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General Association of Economists from Romania
2008-04-01
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| Series: | Theoretical and Applied Economics |
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| Online Access: |
http://store.ectap.ro/articole/298.pdf
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| Summary: | The human movements across borders, societies and cultures
are not running in an “empty space”: the structural characteristics of the economic
systems, the institutional architecture of societies, the cultural paradigm
and the power relations between different social groups, all define the magnitude
and the limits of such movements.
If the “hard” economic migration determinants are extensively explained
in an abundant literature, the “soft” psychological/cultural determinants of
“leave your old life” decision are less analyzed. This paper advances a model
for the interactions between these factors and the economic ones and tries to
explain their influences.
The main output consists in the thesis that the “soft” variables matters in
an extended explanation of migration and that their exclusion pictures a too
abstract analysis of intrinsic migration motifs. |
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| ISSN: | 1841-8678 1844-0029 |