就西方关于境内劳动力迁移或移民的动机与决策的文献进行了梳理,概括出三种不同的理论视角:生产者视角、消费者视角与社会人视角。这三种理论视角对境内劳动力迁移动机都具有相当的解释力,但各自也存在解释力的不足之处。为了克服这种不足,有必要从理论上建立一个整合性的概念框架,可以用“社会流动”的理论框架来整合这三个理论视角。由于社会流动分别包括经济流动、消费流动和社会流动三个维度,它可以把劳动力迁移动机文献中的“生产者视角”“消费者视角”和“社会人视角”整合起来。其中,经济流动维度对接了“生产者视角”,消费流动维度对接了“消费者视角”,地位流动维度对接了“社会人视角”。
Through reviewing and clarifying the literature on the motiva- tions and decisions of internal migrants, this paper summarizes three theoretical perspectives on this issue: the perspectives of the producer, the consumer and the social person. These three perspectives show strong explanatory powers over the motivations and decisions of internal migrants. However, they are simultane- ously insufficient in certain aspects. To overcome such an insufficiency, it is nec- essary to establish a more generalized and integrative theoretical framework. This paper suggests that "social mobility" can act as such a theoretical framework to integrate the three theoretical perspectives. Since social mobility contains three dimensions of economic mobility, consumption mobility and status mobility, it can integrate the theoretical three perspeetives of the producer, the consumer and the social person in the literature on the motivations of internal migrants. In this process, the dimension of economic mobility corresponds to the perspective of the producer, the dimension of consumption mobility corresponds to the perspec- tive of the consumer and the dimension of status mobility corresponds to the per- spective of the social person.