Course Details:
AFE BABALOLA UNIVERSITY, ADO EKITI
COLLEGE OS SOCIAL AND MANAGEMANT SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM AND EVENTS MANAGEMENT
TEM 106: WORLD THEORIES OF HUMAN MOVEMENT
COURSE OUTLINE SECOND SEMESTER (2019/2020) SESSION
CONTENT
1 Definition and scope of Migration
2 Why do people migrate?
3 Theories of Human movement
• The Ravenstein’s Law of Migration
• The Push-Pull theory
• The gravity model of migration
• Theories for migration for work in the 21st century
4 Concept of spatial Interaction
• Complementarity
• Lack of intervening
• Transferability
5 Demographic statistics
• The census
• Vital Registrations
• Population Register
• Migration Statistics
• Sample Surveys
• Others are: marriage register, church register etc.
6 Migration waves and patterns
7 Factors influencing human movements
8 Population concentration and dispersing factors
Lecturer-In-Charge
AGBOOLA, Mayowa Olugbenga
