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Comparative Migration Studies

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)
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