Migration theorizing has coalesced around sets encompassing several frameworks. Despite many contributions of these collections, contemporary migration theorizing exhibits three important shortcomings, which this paper aims to address. First, sets of theories have traditionally not explicitly and jointly addressed fundamental questions in migration, namely (i) key motivations beyond those related to “labor” (turmoil; environmental strain; family, or self‐realization factors); (ii) how important axes of social difference produce distinct motivations and mechanisms (e.g., by gender and sexuality); (iii) the (in)direct roles of the state; (iv) important spatial considerations, that is, immobility, internal versus international movement, step/onward/secondary migrations; and (v) key issues of temporality, that is, return migration, its timing, and intentionality. Engaging with classical and contemporary scholarship, I provide an updated, revised, and broadened set of frameworks and analytical lenses that better incorporate these issues. Second, the most common typology used to categorize frameworks into “initiation” and “continuation” suffers from ambiguity and imprecision. I offer a new classification, typifying mechanisms as more/less endogenous to prior migrations. Third, scholarship has advanced little in systematically examining whether/how theories relate to each other. I provide a basic taxonomy of mechanism “competition,” “coexistence,” co‐occurrence, and interrelation. I conclude by proposing a new and expanded set of frameworks and analytical lenses, reflecting on the implications of these modifications.

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Motion Redux 中的世界？扩展移民理论及其相互联系


迁移理论已经围绕包含多个框架的集合结合起来。尽管这些集合做出了许多贡献，但当代移民理论呈现出三个重要的缺陷，本文旨在解决这些缺陷。首先，传统上，一系列理论并没有明确地共同解决移民中的基本问题，即（i）与“劳动”相关的关键动机（动乱、环境压力、家庭或自我实现因素）； (ii) 社会差异的重要轴如何产生不同的动机和机制（例如，通过性别和性取向）； (iii) 国家的直接作用； (iv) 重要的空间考虑因素，即不动性、国内移动与国际移动、逐步/向前/二次迁移； (v) 暂时性的关键问题，即回返移民、其时间安排和意向性。通过结合古典和当代学术，我提供了一套更新、修订和扩展的框架和分析镜头，以更好地融合这些问题。其次，用于将框架分为“启动”和“延续”的最常见类型存在模糊性和不精确性。我提供了一种新的分类，将机制描述为更多/更少内生于先前的迁移。第三，学术界在系统地检验理论是否/如何相互关联方面进展甚微。我提供了机制“竞争”、“共存”、共现和相互关系的基本分类。最后，我提出了一套新的、扩展的框架和分析视角，反思了这些修改的影响。