ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to search in the political science literature for answers to two central questions: why do people migrate/not migrate from the South to the North? And, how is migration related to the development process? It is to be noted that the terms 'nationality' and 'citizenship' are sometimes used as synonyms, both meaning nominal membership of a state. Migration from Southern to Northern Europe in the first post-war period has been described in similar terms as a continuation of the power of the centre to impose its interests on the periphery. Albert O. Hirschman's seminal work, Exit, Voice and Loyalty, provides an interesting micro-level theoretical framework for analysing the relationship between migration and non-migration. Roger Ko-Chih Tung applied a modified model of exit-voice to analyse the relationship between migration and political participation. Sometimes states may promote emigration in the hope of reducing unemployment, or to gain new skills and to raise their capital holdings through foreign reserves.
