Some Remarks on Selective Migration by E.W. Hofstee, D.V. Glass

By E.W. Hofstee, D.V. Glass

Professor Hofstee has accrued jointly, in compact and hugely readable shape, the most very important conclusions to date reached within the learn of selective points of inner and exterior migration. Of nonetheless higher price, notwithstanding, than this sum­ mary of findings, and extra stimulating to these folks who're at once interested by demographic examine, are Professor Hofstee's reviews at the undocumented hypotheses with which the literature of migration abounds, and his feedback drawback­ ing the types of inquiries to which aim solutions are wanted if powerful development is to be made during this department of social stories. The learn of migration has had a interestingly unsatisfactory background. records of migration built as by-products of governmental coverage and, nevertheless, with scant regard to these ques­ tions on which mild had to be thrown if coverage used to be to have a valid foundation. And as, for lengthy classes, inner move was once no longer thought of a healthy topic for coverage, the data in that box tended to be even much less valuable. in lots of international locations, web balances of circulate via significant administrative parts have been the one signs which may be bought. No less significant, notwithstanding, as an expla­ kingdom of the unsatisfactory nation of the topic is the truth that a lot of non-governmental examine has been piece-meal and un-coordinated - usually of substantial curiosity in itself yet, as is the case with sociology generally, now not build up right into a systematic structure.