كيف نجذب المهاجرين؟ عوامل الجذب في النظريات السابقة

Key Points

• The aim is to challenge the modern understanding of push-pull theory by exploring historical economic theories related to immigration.
• Historical analysis of four major economic theories: mercantilism, cameralism, physiocracy, and classical economics.
• Comparison of policy prescriptions related to immigration from these theories.
• Examination of theoretical disputes addressing migrants' rights, pull factors, and limits on immigration.
• Despite disagreements on wealth and population, the four theories reached an overlapping consensus on immigration approaches.
• The arguments reconstructed around three dilemmas showed similar answers across theories for how to attract immigrants.
• Debates on the nature of pull factors (political, economic, social, geographical) are found to be underexplored in contemporary migration theory.