ABSTRACT
In the previous chapter we discussed determinist approaches to migration. In this chapter, we turn our attention to seven integrative (or mixed) approaches, including: (1) social network (or migrant network) analysis; (2) transnational arguments; (3) gender-aware analyses; (4) structurationist and agency-centric approaches; (5) the migration-development nexus; (6) forced-migration studies; and (7) arguments concerning migration that incorporate the environment. We conclude with an explicitly non-theoretical approach, namely Castles’ ‘social transformation perspective’. So let us begin with social network explanations.
