ABSTRACT
The study of migration represents a truly inter-disciplinary field of endeavour, involving geographers, economists, sociologists, demographers, and others. Although each discipline projects a particular orientation, such that economists have tended to emphasise the interrelationships between labour markets and migration while geographers have highlighted the spatial structure of inter-regional flows, there has been a genuine convergence of the disciplinary foci. The present essay reflects this convergence in that the concepts and models have been culled from a variety of perspectives. As in most recent reviews of the migration literature (Clark, 1982), a distinction is made between inter-regional migration and migration within cities, or residential mobility. Within these two broad categories the reader will also discern a somewhat more informal distinction between macro and micro-level approaches.
