International Handbook of Migration and Population Distribution (International Handbooks of Population, 6)

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 perspectives offered by several social science disciplines, while also examining the crucial relationship between internal and international migration. Part II takes up methods, ranging from how migration data are best collected to contemporary techniques for analyzing such data. Part III of the handbook contains summaries of present trends across all world regions. Part IV rounds out the volume with several contributions assessing pressing issues in contemporary policy areas. The volume’s editor Michael J. White has spent a career studying the pattern and process of internal and international migration, urbanization and population distribution in a wide variety of settings, from developing societies to advanced economies. In this __Handbook__ he brings together contributors from all parts of the world, gathering in this one volume both geographical and substantive expertise of the first rank. The Handbook will be a key reference source for established scholars, as well as an invaluable high-level introduction to the most relevant topics in the field for emerging scholars. Front Matter....Pages i-vii Introduction: Contemporary Insights on Migration and Population Distribution....Pages 1-8 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 Perspectives on Migration Theory: Geography....Pages 11-30 Perspectives on Migration Theory – Economics....Pages 31-40 Perspectives on Migration Theory—Anthropology....Pages 41-67 Perspectives on Migration Theory – Sociology and Political Science....Pages 69-89 Conceptualizing Migration: From Internal/International to Kinds of Membership....Pages 91-106 Front Matter....Pages 107-107 Concepts, Definitions and Data Collection Approaches....Pages 109-156 Data Prospects: IPUMS-International....Pages 157-174 Micro Methods: Longitudinal Surveys and Analyses....Pages 175-204 Migration Analysis Using Demographic Surveys and Surveillance Systems....Pages 205-223 Migration Flows: Measurement, Analysis and Modeling....Pages 225-241 Front Matter....Pages 243-243 African Migration and Population Distribution: Recent Trends, Methodological Challenges and Policy Issues....Pages 245-267 Migration in Asia....Pages 269-284 Migration in China....Pages 285-309 Changing Patterns of Migration in India: A Perspective on Urban Exclusion....Pages 311-332 Migration in Australia and New Zealand....Pages 333-370 Migration in Europe....Pages 371-388 Migration in the Americas....Pages 389-419 Moving for Opportunities? Changing Patterns of Migration in North America....Pages 421-448 Front Matter....Pages 449-449 Migration, Urbanization and Health....Pages 451-463 Front Matter....Pages 449-449 Migration and the Environment....Pages 465-484 Population Distribution and Poverty....Pages 485-504 Migration, Assimilation and Social Welfare....Pages 505-524 Economic Impacts of Migrant Remittances....Pages 525-541 International Migration, Gender and Family: A Miroir from Latin America....Pages 543-572 Urban Migration of Adolescent Girls: Quantitative Results from Developing Countries....Pages 573-604 Forced Migration....Pages 605-625 Back Matter....Pages 627-636 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 perspectives offered by several social science disciplines, while also examining the crucial relationship between internal and international migration. Part II takes up methods, ranging from how migration data are best collected to contemporary techniques for analyzing such data. Part III of the handbook contains summaries of present trends across all world regions. Part IV rounds out the volume with several contributions assessing pressing issues in contemporary policy areas. The volume's editor Michael J. White has spent a career studying the pattern and process of internal and international migration, urbanization and population distribution in a wide variety of settings, from developing societies to advanced economies. In this Handbook he brings together contributors from all parts of the world, gathering in this one volume both geographical and substantive expertise of the first rank. The Handbook will be a key reference source for established scholars, as well as an invaluable high-level introduction to the most relevant topics in the field for emerging scholars.-- Provided by Publisher 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 perspectives offered by several social science disciplines, while also examining the crucial relationship between internal and international migration.℗l Part II takes up methods, ranging from how migration data are best collected to contemporary techniques for analyzing such data.℗l Part III of the handbook contains summaries of present trends across all world regions.℗l Part IV rounds out the volume with several contributions assessing pressing issues in contemporary policy areas.℗l The volumeĺls editor Michael J. White has spent a career studying the pattern and process of internal and international migration, urbanization, and population distribution in a wide variety of settings, from developing societies to advanced economies.℗l In this Handbook he brings together contributors from all parts of the world, gathering in this one volume both geographical and substantive expertise of the first rank.℗l The Handbook will be a key reference source for established scholars, as well as an invaluable high-level introduction to the most relevant topics in the field for emerging scholars Migration is considered one of the defining global issues of the early twenty-first century, as more and more people are on the move today than at any other point in human history. There are now about 192 million people living outside their place of birth, which is about three per cent of the world's population. This handbook will be the first to bring together both internal and international migration in the same publication. The first part on improving available theory will include interdisciplinary perspectives. Internal and international migratory movements have much in common, yet "theory" (or conceptual treatments) has proceeded on separate tracks for the most part. Therefore the first part of this handbook will attempt to bring these together. The second part will include data and methods for migration study. Part three will include regional perspectives of migration, whereby internal migration, international migration, and immigration will be described with balance as appropriate for the region. The last part will describe emerging policy topics in population redistribution and a conclusion will bring all of these topics together.