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VD17-Nummer 2019 maschinell ergänzt ; Volltext // Exemplar mit der Signatur: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- 4 Diss. 3084,22

AbstractHistorically there has been an understandable bias toward main‐stream migration, equating dominance with significance. But counterurbanization research has shown that small migration streams can become significant when taken cumulatively. However, due to their inherent diversity it is unrealistic to attempt to analyse all migrants individually. Therefore, a discriminatory principle is needed to distinguish significant migration. The paper explores this concept within the main theoretical paradigms of migration research and develops the hypothesis that migration significance is a property of its larger effect on the specific targeted populations. The paper hypothesizes that migration significance is a property of the resultant divergence from sedentary population growth expectations, in other words, the population stresses placed on a location due to population influx or loss. The definition is then applied to 2001 and 2011 South African census migration data to assess the significance of sub‐stream migration.