The form and evolution of international migration networks, 1990–2015

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy J. Abel ◽  
Jack DeWaard ◽  
Jasmine Trang Ha ◽  
Zack W. Almquist
GEOgraphia ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Marcelo de Jesus Santa Bárbara e Rogério Haesbaert

Resumo Os estudos sobre migrações adquirem crescente importância no mundo contemporâneo e também no Brasil, que se insere em circuitos como o das migrações transfronteiriças com os vizinhos do Mercosul. Este processo é aqui analisado sob a ótica do conflito ou do jogo de identidades culturais e sua participação na construção de novas territorialidades, especialmente as redes transfronteiriças. Palavras-chave: Identidade, Migração, Redes, Mercosul.Abstract The studies about migrations become very important in recent times. Brazil is also in international migration circuits, like the frontier migrations with neighbour countries of Mercosul. This dynamic is studied through the concept of identity as a conflict or a play and its participation in the making of new territorialities, specially those of frontier networks. Keywords: Identity, Migration, Networks, Mercosul.


1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Hugo

There has been an unprecedented increase in international population movement in the Asia-Pacific region in the last decade. The causes of this are complex and associated with the rapid economic and social change in the region, the forces of globalization, improvements in transport and communication and proliferation of migration networks. However, the present paper suggests that one element which needs to be considered in explaining contemporary international migration but especially in anticipating trends over the next decade are the differential patterns of growth of population within the region. While population growth overall has slowed, the work force age groups will continue to grow rapidly in Asia over the next decade or so and the contrasts between individual countries will increase. The proportion in the peak mobility age groups will thus continue to grow rapidly in particular countries and will be one of the elements contributing to increased levels of international migration within and out of the region.


1996 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 631-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
B Waldorf

In this paper I provide a conceptualization of international migration networks, which can be used to identify and integrate the internal components of migration systems, and formalize the relationships in an analytic model of the internal network dynamic. With the use of the operationalized model, and microlevel and macrolevel data for guestworkers in Germany during the period 1970 to 1989, we can empirically test the relative influence of internal network variables versus external forces on the attraction of immigrants over time. The empirical results suggest that—as the system matures—network variables have an increasing impact on the attraction of immigrants, while the impact of economic factors declines. The research is concluded with a series of simulations that further highlight the internal dynamic of international migration systems.


GEOgraphia ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Marcelo de Jesus Santa Bárbara e Rogério Haesbaert

Resumo Os estudos sobre migrações adquirem crescente importância no mundo contemporâneo e também no Brasil, que se insere em circuitos como o das migrações transfronteiriças com os vizinhos do Mercosul. Este processo é aqui analisado sob a ótica do conflito ou do jogo de identidades culturais e sua participação na construção de novas territorialidades, especialmente as redes transfronteiriças. Palavras-chave: Identidade, Migração, Redes, Mercosul.Abstract The studies about migrations become very important in recent times. Brazil is also in international migration circuits, like the frontier migrations with neighbour countries of Mercosul. This dynamic is studied through the concept of identity as a conflict or a play and its participation in the making of new territorialities, specially those of frontier networks. Keywords: Identity, Migration, Networks, Mercosul.


Author(s):  
Khalid Koser

‘Migration and globalization’ shows how international migration is an important dimension of globalization. Growing developmental, demographic, and democratic disparities provide powerful incentives to move and the segmentation of labour markets in richer countries is creating increasing demand for migrant workers there. Migration has been facilitated by revolutions in communications and transport; the development of migration networks; and the establishment of rights and entitlements for migrant workers. The growth of a migration industry adds further momentum to international migration, even where it is not officially permitted. There are more reasons and additional means to migrate than ever before.


2016 ◽  
pp. 128-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Jaskułowski ◽  
Marek Pawlak

Key theories of international migrations: overview, critique and perspectivesThe article aims at critical review of the key theories of international migration. The starting point is the assumption that a critical review of theoretical literature is a necessary component of the research process, especially regarding such rapidly growing field as migration studies. The authors analyze the most important theories developed in migration studies (economic theories, structural-historical theories, migration networks and transnationalism) by pointing out their historical contexts, drawbacks and limitations. At the same time they indicate the new research perspectives, which include relations between migration theory and a broader social context as well as the dialectic of mobility and immobility. Główne teorie migracji międzynarodowych: przegląd, krytyka, perspektywyArtykuł ma na celu krytyczny przegląd głównych teorii migracji międzynarodowych. Punktem wyjścia jest założenie, że krytyczne przeglądy teoretycznej literatury stanowią niezbędny element procesu badawczego, zwłaszcza w tak żywiołowo rozwijającej się dziedzinie jak studia migracyjne. Autorzy analizują najważniejsze koncepcje wypracowane w ramach badań migracyjnych: teorie ekonomiczne, strukturalno-historyczne, sieci migracyjnych i transnacjonalizmu. Pokazują kontekst historyczny oraz wady i ograniczenia każdej z teorii wskazując nowe perspektywy badawcze: powiązania teorii migracji z szerszym kontekstem społecznym i dialektyką mobilności/braku mobilności.


2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-143
Author(s):  
Julie Boyles

An ethnographic case study approach to understanding women’s actions and reactions to husbands’ emigration—or potential emigration—offers a distinct set of challenges to a U.S.-based researcher.  International migration research in a foreign context likely offers challenges in language, culture, lifestyle, as well as potential gender norm impediments. A mixed methods approach contributed to successfully overcoming barriers through an array of research methods, strategies, and tactics, as well as practicing flexibility in data gathering methods. Even this researcher’s influence on the research was minimized and alleviated, to a degree, through ascertaining common ground with many of the women. Research with the women of San Juan Guelavía, Oaxaca, Mexico offered numerous and constant challenges, each overcome with ensuing rewards.


2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agustín Escobar Latapi

Although the migration – development nexus is widely recognized as a complex one, it is generally thought that there is a relationship between poverty and emigration, and that remittances lessen inequality. On the basis of Latin American and Mexican data, this chapter intends to show that for Mexico, the exchange of migrants for remittances is among the lowest in Latin America, that extreme poor Mexicans don't migrate although the moderately poor do, that remittances have a small, non-significant impact on the most widely used inequality index of all households and a very large one on the inequality index of remittance-receiving households, and finally that, to Mexican households, the opportunity cost of international migration is higher than remittance income. In summary, there is a relationship between poverty and migration (and vice versa), but this relationship is far from linear, and in some respects may be a perverse one for Mexico and for Mexican households.


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