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Table 1 Aspirations–capabilities-derived individual mobility types

From: A theory of migration: the aspirations-capabilities framework

 

      Migration capabilities

   Low

   High

Migration aspirations(intrinsic and/or instrumental)

 High

Involuntary immobilitya

(feeling ‘trapped’)

Voluntary mobility

(most forms of migration)

 Low

Acquiescent immobilityb

Voluntary immobility

and

involuntary mobility

(e.g. refugees, ‘soft deportation’)c

  1. a(Carling 2002); b Schewel (2015, 2020); c See Boersema et al. (2014)