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International handbook of migration and population distribution /
This Handbook offers a comprehensive collection of essays that cover essential features of geographical mobility, from internal migration, to international migration, to urbanization, to the adaptation of migrants in their destinations. Part I of the collection introduces the range of theoretical pe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht ; New York :
Springer Science+Business Media,
[2016]
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| Colección: | International handbooks of population ;
Volume 6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1: Introduction: Contemporary Insights on Migration and Population Distribution; Part I: Perspectives on Theory for Internal and International Migration; 2: Perspectives on Migration Theory: Geography; The Intensity of Migration: Distance Decay and the Gravity Model; The Causes of Migration: Economics as the Main Driving Force; Taking the Economy More Seriously; Linking Internal and International Migration; The Direction of Migration: ``Development ́́and Mass Migration; Telecommunications and Migration; The Scaling of Migration Control; The Mobilities Paradigm.
- The Variety of Migration: Circulation and TransnationalismGender and Migration; The Channelization of Migration: Migration Fields and Networked Flows; Conclusions; References; 3: Perspectives on Migration Theory
- Economics; Introduction; The Disequilibrium Perspective; The Gravity Model; Present Discounted Values; Job-Search Models; Microdata Approaches; Selectivity Issues; The Equilibrium Perspective; Consequences of Migration and Conclusions; References; 4: Perspectives on Migration Theory-Anthropology; Research Methodologies and Units of Analysis.
- Transnationalism, Diaspora, and CosmopolitanismImmigrants, Citizenship, and Political Mobilization; Inclusion and Exclusion: The Reception of Immigrants, Discourses of Immigration, and Racism; Immigrants, the State, the Law, and Multiculturalism; Conclusion; References; 5: Perspectives on Migration Theory
- Sociology and Political Science; A Brief Nod to History; The Migrant: Individual, Community Member, Node in a Network; Migration and the Family; Non-pecuniary Factors in Micro-level Migration; Migration, Social Networks and Community; Migration and Destination Adaptation.
- Migration and Political StructuresNew Directions; Data and Methods; Substantive Horizons and Challenges; Political and Social Contexts; References; 6: Conceptualizing Migration: From Internal/International to Kinds of Membership; The Cleavage Between International and Internal Migration; Bridging the Gap Between Internal and International Migration; Emphasis on a Different Cleavage; References; Part II: Data and Methods for Migration Study; 7: Concepts, Definitions and Data Collection Approaches; Introduction; Conceptual and Definitional Issues and Conundra; Definitions; Further Observations.
- Questions to Identify MigrantsTypology Conundra; Common Existing Sources of Data, Limitations and Prospects for Making them More Useful; Population Censuses and Continuous Population Registers; Existing Household Surveys to Which Questions on Migration May Be Added ; The Crucial Issues of Sample Size and Prevalence of Migrants; Major Existing Types of Household Surveys that Could Provide Data on Migrants if Modified; Aspects of Survey Design for Specialized Surveys of Migration; Sampling in Surveys of Migration; Stratification and Disproportionate Sampling.