Why Do People Move Countries? Migration Motives
Daniel grew up in Dublin and Cork, moved to Israel at twenty-five, and insists it was never about opportunity — it was about the belief that Israel is where Jewish people should live. Then he turned the question on himself: as a rational actor, wouldn't he have preferred not to migrate at all? That's the thread this episode pulls. We walk through what migration research actually says about why people move — push and pull, voluntary versus forced versus ideological migration, why the UN and OECD datasets classify migrants by legal category rather than motive, and why a clean global percentage…
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