ESTABLISHING A THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE: A broad conceptualization of migration -- Some evaluative criteria -- Differentiating lines of inquiry -- SELECTIVITY AND DIFFERENTIALS IN MIGRATION: Age selectivity -- Sex differentials -- Educational differentials -- Occupational differentials -- Other factors -- Life-cycle and career pattern considerations -- Towards a socio-demographic profile of migrants -- SPARIAL ASPECTS: Distance -- Directional aspects and stage migration -- The gravity concept -- Intervening opportunities and competing migrants -- ECONOMIC INTERPRETATIONS OF MIGRATION: Aspects of review -- A note on strengths and weaknesses of aggregative statistical models -- Structural determinants of migration -- The cost-benefit framework -- The cost-benefit framework -- Toward improved model specification -- SUBJECTIVE CONSIDERATIONS IN THE DECISION TO MIGRATE: Migration motives -- Place-utility considerations -- Orientation to family -- PROBABILISTIC AND STOCHASTIC APPROACHES: The Mover-Stayer framework -- Residence duration -- Development of the Cornell mobility model and semi-Markovian processes -- Current status and potential of the Markovian models -- DIRECTIVES FOR FURTHER RESEARCH: Summary of systematic findings -- A comment of viable approaches.
