Findings and Recommendations

Abstract

“Ubi bene ibi patria ” may not only be understood in the economic sense but in the present time of basic social change, even more in the sociological sense. This is the main thread running through most of the studies consulted for this analysis. The thesis that economic motives are solely or largely responsible for the drift of rural people from the countryside to cities and industry is a generalization often used in order to camouflage the real principal motives. It is, therefore, not surprising that a recent sociological publication lists about fifty situations, factors and conditions which are likely to have some relation to migration.¹ This variety of conditions combined with the potentially large number of individual characteristics stresses the need to be careful with any one-sided definition of migration motives.²

For a general summary and conclusions the reader is referred to Part I, pp. 33–35