DISCUSSION ON DIFFERENT THEORETICAL APPROACHES FOR THE STUDY OF MIGRATION AND LABOR MOBILITY

Abstract

This article seeks to bring an evaluation regarding the different theoretical conceptions that are assumed by the studies on the migratory phenomenon, having as a guiding thread the development of the concept of labor mobility, which is historically aligned with the development of economic thought. In this way, we divided our study into three topics, which deal with three different approaches to migrations. Initially, we analyzed the classical and neoclassical approaches, which are based on the economic school of liberalism, especially on Adam Smith and David Ricardo efforts. In the second topic, our focus is on the historical-structural approach and its advances in relation to the previous postulate. In the third topic, we deal with the approach of labor mobility, based on the Marxist analysis of the capitalist mode of production and addressed mainly by Jean-Paul de Gaudemar. Finally, we bring some reflections on the most recent approaches to migration in contemporary capitalism and the role of geography in this panorama.