Migration, Risk, and Uncertainty: Theoretical Perspectives

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Impact of health risk perception on avoidance of international travel in the wake of a pandemic (2021, background): “Limited knowledge of unfamiliar places and unsystematic exogenous events (such as the COVID-19 pandemic) provide a theoretical lens for the understanding of uncertainty in tourism (Williams & Baláž, 2012).”
The migration intentions of young adults in Europe: A comparative, multilevel analysis (2018, background): “Finally, a relatively new strand of research indicates that risk tolerance/aversion and perceived competence to manage risk are important determinants of the willingness to migrate (Williams and Baláž, 2012).”
Tourism Risk and Uncertainty (2015, background): “In common with migration (Williams and Baláž 2012), it involves traveling from familiar places that we have personal or tacit knowledge (Polanyi 1966) of, to unfamiliar places about which we have less tacit knowledge.”