@article{23d94cef3f4d412ea2a9e7efc015ea1a,
title = "Peasant mobility, local migration and premodern urbanization",
abstract = "The scale of human movement at the local and regional levels in agrarian states, called {\textquoteleft}local migration{\textquoteright} by Charles Tilly, can be quite extensive. I review several characteristics of such movement, culled from a range of disciplines and historical contexts. Three spatial patterns are examined: village nucleation; ruralto- urban migration; and intra-urban movements. The movement of people into settlements – whether villages or cities – should not be viewed as an extraordinary occurrence requiring special explanation; instead, it is the normal concomitant of broader patterns of local and regional spatial mobility. The likelihood that individuals and households would move was determined largely by the effect of economic hardship at the household and local levels.",
keywords = "Aztecs, Migration, Mobility, Nucleation, Peasants, Urbanization",
author = "Michael Smith",
note = "Funding Information: I was first stimulated to review this literature as a result of discussions about past and present urbanization processes at the Santa Fe Institute in July 2013. I thank Luis Bettencourt, Geoffrey West, Jos{\'e} Lobo and Scott Ortman for discussions and the Santa Fe Institute for the opportunity. Reading Robin Osborne{\textquoteright}s 1991 paper opened up a new perspective for me, and the present article can be seen as an elaboration and extension of that paper. I thank Cathy Cameron, Geoff Clark, George Cowgill and Greg Schachner for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper. The suggestions of Peter van Dommelen and an anonymous reviewer helped improve the paper. Conversations with Brenda Baker, Kelly Knudson, Barbara Stark and Gaku Tsuda helped clarify my thinking on migration and mobility. Fieldwork at Cuexcomate, Capilco and Yautepec was supported by the National Science Foundation. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014 Taylor & Francis.",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1080/00438243.2014.931818",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "46",
pages = "516--533",
journal = "World Archaeology",
issn = "0043-8243",
publisher = "Routledge",
number = "4",
}