Dear all,
I am new in the Mobility of populations movement, coming up with 2 questions:
1. What is the definition of Mobility and Migration in terms of populations movement? What are their differences in Geography and Anthropology?
2. What are the common or well-known conceptual and analytical frameworks and theories for the study at micro and macro levels?
Thanks in advance,
Q.Li
Hi Li, as per your question, The term "geographic mobility" refers to how people and goods travel over time. A measure that tracks movement within a country is known as geographic mobility, population mobility, or simply mobility. It's a term that's commonly used in demography and population studies to describe the movement of populations between spaces. These relocations may be as big as foreign relocations. Mobility is mostly temporary in nature.
While migration is the movement of people between regions or countries. It is the process of changing's one place of residence and permanently living from a region or a country. According to the UN Demographic dictionary " Migration is such an event in which people move from one geographical area to another area. When people leaving their place of residence and go to live permanently in another area is called migration". It may be temporary or permanent with intentions of returning to the place of origin in future.
For your further clarification attaching some reference below,
1)Article Migration and mobilities
2)https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12339560/
3)https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/14984678.pdf
4)Chapter Between Mobility and Migration: The Consequences and Governa...
5)http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/nhdr_migration_gn.pdf
Dear Sir,
To answer your question...
Mobility refers to all forms of movement of human being. It could be short distance or long distance.
All Mobility will not term as Migration. Only long distance movement with changes of usual place of residence is considered as Migration.
Hey, I read the above literature and replies. I feel that the definition of mobility and migration varies across disciplines and languages. For instance, my first impression of Mobility is the ability to move freely rather than 'all forms of movement'. It is quite confusing when I assess the ability of free migration and compare it between cases. This is why I raised up this discussion! In my research, I feel confused about structuring a sound storyline sometimes. Do you have further ideas and literature? Thanks
In our paper" The Role of Community Cooperative Institutions in Building Rural–Urban Linkages Under Urbanization of Pastoral Regions in China", we did provide a bit of background definition on mobility in the contexts of pastoral regions. FYI.