Migration and Rights of Access: New Public Concerns of the 1970s,
Abstract
Changed patterns of migration, coupled with a sharp slowdown in overall population growth, have intensified public concern with population movements and their local consequences. These demographic shifts have brought the right to migrate into conflict with the less well-defined rights of the population already living where migrants decide to go. Underlying this contemporary concern with migration is a complex and unresolved issue about rights of access to places. This paper offers a demographic perspective on migration and the issue of access as they manifest themselves in two contemporary situations: (1) energy boom towns where large-scale energy-related industrial development is under way; and (2) growth-limiting communities which have sought to impose local population ceilings. Submerged beneath this concern with migration, and the often unwelcome access it confers on destination areas, are such profound legal and political questions as Who gets to live where; and Who is to decide, and by what criteria.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1977
- Accession Number
- ADA040877
Entities
People
- Peter A. Morrison
Organizations
- RAND Corporation