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Push and Pull Factors for Immigration

Push and Pull Factors for Immigration

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Immigration is a sensitive issue that has implications on the economic, political and social dimensions. It is practically impossible to effectively control cross-borders in any country especially in nowadays free-market economy which, in order to remain sustainable, have to maintain its borders open for the freedom of goods, services, capital and...

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... general, immigration can be explained by push-and pull-factors between regions and by helping migrant networks on both sides. Table 2 shows the south Mediterranean migration potential points out foremost to the push-factors and the migrant networks between sending and receiving countries. Source: Schmid (2011). ...

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