That Yang argue that Immigration and experience after migrant. That there are other factors that can cause one to move to the United states. Yang claims that push-pull theory, balancing theory, world structure theory, social network theory, and other current hypotheses are not reliable and have shortcomings. In his article, he points out that they lack the description of both historical and current flows and would make little sense in the various circumstances of people.
The common explanation of why people migrate is to have a better life and discover a place that can help them improve what they need. For example, finding a job and making money to buy food for the family. Also, there are many more reasons why people migrate to other countries because of problems like war, government issues that aren’t good for living, things that are related to money issues that couldn’t help their families. Also an example from the movie “The karate kid” by Jaden smith and Jackie chan. Where in the beginning the family moved from the United States to China because the company the mother was working for moved back to china so the family too. That the theories Yang have are similarly related because the example I provided was the movie where the mom moved because of work. No, I can’t think of any cluster or factor in Yang’s theories.
I thought the karate kid example you gave is very interesting because it is both an economic social connection as well as a disparity. The company moving to China is a pull factor at the same time it is a push factor because if she does not follow the company, she will be jobless in the US. On the other hand, the company is also an economic social connection because the company is presumably international, being able to transfer a job between the US and China. In this example, the connection is a motivating force for immigration.
Great application of Yang to Andrew’s comment!
One thing to note– though I appreciate the example of the film– is that Yang is speaking about Asian migration to the U.S.. I wonder what about his theory, if anything, would have to change if we look at migration from the U.S.