title: The macrodynamics of international migration as a socio-cultural diffusion process.  Part B:  applications.
abstract: "This study formulates a model of the macrodynamics of international migration using a differential equation to capture the push-pull forces that propel it.  The model's architecture rests on the functioning of information feedback between settled friends and family at the destination and potential emigrants at the origin.... Two specific paradigms of diverse nature serve to demonstrate the model's tenets and pertinence, one being Greek emigration to the United States since 1820, and the other total out-migration from Cyprus since statehood (1946)."
authors.forename: N D
authors.initials: ND
authors.lastname: Diamantides
mesh_terms: D000569:Americas; D001208:Asia; D001211:Asia, Western; D001519:Behavior; D003535:Cyprus; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D003906:Developing Countries; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005060:Europe; D005191:Family Characteristics; D006115:Greece; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009042:Motivation; D009656:North America; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011584:Psychology; D012106:Research; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D014481:United States
keywords: Americas; Asia; Behavior; Cyprus; Demographic Factors; Destination; Developed Countries; Developing Countries; Europe; Family And Household; Friends And Relatives; Greece; Information; International Migration--determinants; Mathematical Model; Mediterranean Countries; Migrants; Migration; Models, Theoretical; Motivation; North America; Northern America; Origin; Population; Population Dynamics; Psychological Factors; Research Methodology; Southern Europe; United States; Western Asia