Why do Scientists Migrate? A Diffusion Model

Why Do Asylum-Seekers Migrate?

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Why Do They Want to Migrate from Rural Areas? A Psychological Perspective from Iran

While migration is a basic element of population dynamics in most societies, in Iran, rural-urban migration is a particular concern of both social scientists and policy makers. Rural-urban migration accounts for over half of the growth of most Iranian cities. On the other hand, this movement is often cited as having negative effects on rural area, including a shortage of supply of agricultural ...

How and why do insects migrate?

Countless numbers of insects migrate within and between continents every year, and yet we know very little about the ultimate reasons and proximate mechanisms that would explain these mass movements. Here we suggest that perhaps the most important reason for insects to migrate is to hedge their reproductive bets. By spreading their breeding efforts in space and time, insects distribute their of...

Specialist training in Fiji: Why do graduates migrate, and why do they remain? A qualitative study

BACKGROUND Specialist training was established in the late 1990s at the Fiji School of Medicine. Losses of graduates to overseas migration and to the local private sector prompted us to explore the reasons for these losses from the Fiji public workforce. METHODS Data were collected on the whereabouts and highest educational attainments of the 66 Fiji doctors who had undertaken specialist trai...

Why do scientists falsify data ? A matched - control