Richmond, Anthony2011-06-152011-06-151993Anthony Richmond, "Reactive Migration: Sociological Perspectives on Refugee Movements," Journal of Refugee Studies 6.1 (1993): 7-24.http://hdl.handle.net/10315/8018Sociological theories of migration and refugee movements are reviewed and revised in the light of developments in structural theory. Specifically, the dichotomy between 'voluntary' and 'involuntary' or forced migration is replaced by a continuum between proactive and reactive migration. A systems model is proposed which identifies predisposing factors, structural constraints, precipitating events, enabling circumstances and system feedback. A multivariate typology of reactive migration is described and some policy conclusions drawn.enThis is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in the Journal of Refugee Studies following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version [Anthony Richmond, "Reactive Migration: Sociological Perspectives on Refugee Movements," Journal of Refugee Studies 6.1 (1993): 7-24] is available online at: http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/content/6/1/7.full.pdf+htmlArticlehttp://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/content/6/1/7.full.pdf+html