...There is a baffling puzzle in international migration: why are there so many few migrants from so many places and so many from only a few places? On the one hand, there is relative immobility — only a very small percentage of potential migrants are moving abroad. Most persons migrate domestically...

... diffusion function selective function adaptation function international migration work housing migrant networks economic risks psychological risks manifold Landsmannschaften return migrants Once the broader opportunities are set, the familiar story about evolving migration dynamics goes like...

... not only varies along countries but is also highly unevenly distributed within developing countries, one needs to look more closely at the selection process. This helps one to distinguish the role of social capital in relative immobility — internal migration and in situ adaptation...

... analysis control policies mobility and immobility ties Fischer P A local assets Malmberg G Martin R Straubhaar T Bjerén G Hermele K asylum seekers refugees Ahmed I despondence Geneva Convention 1951 internal migration South North migration South South migration Fiske S T human capital...

... Tijuana Port of Entry consumption Open Border Period Aurelio Nava coyote Smuggler impression management border strategies structure versus agency internal and international migration stepwise migration border commuting Ramón’s life is a border life. In 1968, at the age of eighteen...

... organisation overseeing all migration may have not only more effectively coordinated with the UN or ILO on rights, but even grown, like UNHCR, into a role promoting and monitoring international migration law, and overcoming its fragmentation. It may have built on its constitutional requirement to conform its...

...-century European history was international migration. Family emigration was a feature of the transatlantic movement in the earlier part of the nineteenth century. It is found that males dominated the Irish emigrant flow in the pre-famine period, with more females leaving Ireland by the turn of the century...

...This chapter raises the argument of whether international migration could foster democracy. Recent migration patterns mostly consist of people from the Global South moving to the Global North due to the prevalence of internal violence, poor governance, and poverty. Although migration brings...

...This chapter draws on insights from W.E.B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon to explain how racial inequality persists in international migration despite its legal prohibition. It looks at the racial bias hypothesis, the racial reaction hypothesis, the colonial legacy hypothesis, and the expansion...

...This chapter looks at several important theoretical and technical concerns with unmasking the persistent racial inequality in international migration. It presents the theoretical issues as a conversation with three different groups of skeptics. These theoretical skeptics address both the ethical...

...This chapter begins by uncovering color-blind racial inequality in international migration, looking at racial bias. Racial bias exists when non-White migrants migrate less than their circumstances suggest. Using data on the entire international system, the chapter provides evidence that migrants...

... for refugees. The chapter discusses how the developments at the Summit at the United Nations (UN) in 2016 occurred against a backdrop of rising international migration at unprecedented levels, mainly displacements of millions of people due to conflict. It points out the growing recognition of the impacts...

... that scholarship on eating per se has been comparatively weak, and that recently, rather than being driven by the theoretical concerns of social science, the focus has been on popular anxieties about food. The article also discusses the movement of goods and the movement of people (international migration...

...Why do people leave their country of birth? In this chapter, we see that people migrate because they seek out a better life abroad and because they have the networks and resources to leave. We can’t understand international migration patterns simply by looking at poverty; we also have to consider...

...This concluding chapter discusses the key insights of this research on the Philippine state’s international migration within the context of globalization. It characterizes developing forms of labor brokerage outside the Philippines, along with the alternative meanings of rights and membership...

...This chapter examines the developmental implications of the international migration of women by focusing on emigration originating in developing countries. It first reviews some empirical and theoretical elements related to migration and development before assessing some of the impacts of female...

... professional values religion spousal abuse values self determination Hendriks P Weiss I child protection welfare Global North approaches and practices Global South approaches and practices resources welfare systems respect Knowledge transfer social work values international migration of social...

... people deployed to help mitigate the effects of neoliberal reforms, such as international migration to Argentina, Spain, and other countries. The chapter first provides an overview of neoliberalism in the Bolivian context before discussing the effects of neoliberalism on the ground, including its impact...

...This chapter focuses on measures that labor-sending and labor-receiving countries can adopt cooperatively to make international migration a sustainable exchange. Sustainability requires benefits to all parties concerned, from migrants and employers to labor-sending and labor-receiving countries...

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