Internal migration pattern at local level in Colombia: an approach from the 1993 and 2005 censuses

Type Working Paper
Title Internal migration pattern at local level in Colombia: an approach from the 1993 and 2005 censuses
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2011
URL http://iussp.org/sites/default/files/event_call_for_papers/Article Migration Colombia (IUSSP).pdf
Abstract
This study aims to add to the discussion about different hypotheses on migration levels and tendencies already proposed in the literature, as well as to the discussion about the nature of population exchanges in space (Zelinsky, 1971; Ravenstein, 1980; Singer, 1980, et al). The scope of this study is also to show that the dynamics of internal migration in a developing country, such as Colombia, although adopting major urbanization tendencies that can be identified in other Latin American countries, has particularities which define a distinctive pattern of migration in its territory. This pattern is characterized by structural aspects concerning its political and administrative order, by an internal heterogeneity regarding its development level, and by its degree of advancement in the process of demographic transition.

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