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How does poverty affect migration choice? a review of literature Forced Migration Online (24276783) Migration, asylum and refugee law FORCED MIGRATION ONLINE LIVELIHOODS MIGRATION SOCIAL SERVICES RURAL COMMUNITIES URBAN COMMUNITIES ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION ETHNIC AND NATIONAL GROUPS WOMEN CHILDREN CHILDREN AT RISK STANDARD OF LIVING POVERTY SOCIAL SECURITY This paper investigates poverty and vulnerability as determinants of migration. Until recent years, this has been a relatively under-researched area, at least in comparison to the significant amount of (economic) literature examining the reverse causal relationship, the impact of migration on wellbeing. Poverty and vulnerability are likely to have two conflicting effects on migration: by providing incentives to migrate, either as a strategy for livelihood diversification or out of destitution; but also by reducing the ability to migrate because the transfer costs involved (in terms of financial, human, physical and social capital) are too high. 2026-09-30T11:50:52Z Text Online resource 10.25446/oxford.33357018.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/How_does_poverty_affect_migration_choice_a_review_of_literature/33357018 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0