Reasons for internal migration in Estonia 1989–2000

Abstrakti

This study analyses internal migration trends within the framework of human migration as an outcome of interaction between environment, individual needs and subjective decision-making process. The dissertation provides overview about theoretical approaches and empirical migration analyses on three levels: macro, aggregated individual and individual level and includes four chapters. The first chapter gives an overview of general trends of urbanisation in the developed world and reasons of growth and decline of urban population. Chapter 1 comes to the conclusion that, although the settlement of population has been seen often as outcome of production forces, this may no longer be the case. The second chapter groups reasons of migration and analyses the influence of migration factors on aggregated individual level. Two different approaches – well-being approach and theory of needs are used to elaborate classification of migration components. The third chapter develops a behavioural model of migration decision-making and the fourth chapter analyses the freedom to move on regional level. The unifying element of different chapters of the book is the empirical time-space scope of migration processes in Estonia in 1990s. The aim of this review is to give some short hint to the topics covered in the book.