Most of the papers were presented at seminars sponsored by the Committe on Urbanization and Population Redistribution of the International Union for the Scientific Study of population, held in Bellagio, Italy (July 1978) and Oulu, Finland (August 1978).

Includes bibliographies and index.

The impasse in migration theory / Wilbur Zelinsky -- Modernization, migration, and urbanization / Calvin Goldschneider -- New conceptual approaches to migration in the context of urbanization / Graeme J. Hugo -- Issues in the study of migration and urbanization in Africa south of the Sahara / Aderanti Adepoju -- Agrarian structures and internal migration in a historical perspective / Jorge Balán -- Present relationships between migration and urbanization / Antonio Golini -- Stagnant growth of Japanese major metropolitan regions in the era of post-industrial development / Shunichi Inoue -- Planning and migration research / Ian Masser -- Methods of projecting rural-to-urban migration, with reference to southeast Asia / Alden Speare, Jr. -- Population redistribution policies and migrants' choices / Joan M. Nelson -- Population projections and planning decisions in developed and developing countries / Gavin Jones -- Planning for migration and urbanization / Vincent Heath Whitney.