TY - JOUR
AU - Kunz, E. F.
AB - The Refugee In Flight: Kinetic Models And Forms Of Displacement. by E. F. Kunz* General and particular theories After the publication of Fairchild's early Immigrant Backgrounds, in which he emphasised the importance of such immigrant characteristics as race, culture and nationality, 1 it became an axiom of immigration studies that the immigrant's background affects his future as settler. Work following in the next decades con­ firmed Fairchild's observation and enlarged on it. By 1958 Petersen listed the "emigrants' motives and the social causes of emigration"? as an important back­ ground factor affecting aspirations and migrant outcomes. The growing recognition that the refugees' motivation to seek a new place of settlement differs from that of the voluntary migrant, was also accompanied by mounting evidence that the refugees' experiences may vary one from the other, the variance resulting in different refugee outcomes. However, observations on individual refugee groups were neither compared nor operationally utilised in any comprehensive way. Such a comprehensive study cannot be undertaken without the existence of a workable theory of refugee movements, based on a fruitful refugee typology and resting on suitable conceptual categories. This study intends to help lay these foundations. Petersen's general typology of migration within 
TI - The Refugee in Flight: Kinetic Models and forms of Displacement
JF - International Migration Review
DO - 10.1177/019791837300700201
DA - 1973-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/the-refugee-in-flight-kinetic-models-and-forms-of-displacement-2PtjPnWnCY
SP - 125
EP - 146
VL - 7
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -