Managing risk and uncertainty. Migration as insurance. The cost of information. The contribution of networks and diasporas to reducing uncertainty. Language skills.
Discount rate (preference for the present or the future). Trade-off between standard of living and quality of life (public facilities and goods; quality of legal system, healthcare system, education system, tax system; access to fundamental rights, etc.). Trade-offs between personal consumption and remittances.
Figures of the migrant in testimonial or narrative literature: victim or strategist? calculator or adventurer? Is the desire to migrate irrational? The legend of Eldorado.
