Migration and Development Within and Across Borders: Research and Policy Perspectives on Internal and International Migration
- Document number
- 1846
- Date
- 2008
- Title
- Migration and Development Within and Across Borders: Research and Policy Perspectives on Internal and International Migration
- Author/publisher
- IOM, SSRC, Josh DeWind & Jennifer Holdaway (eds)
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Meeting Documentation/Conference Reports, Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- U.S. mass migration (Susan Carter and Richard Sutch), Circular Internal Migration and Development in India (Priya Deshingkar), Socio-Cultural Perspective on Migration and Economic Development: Middle Eastern Migration from Kerala, India (Prema Kurien), Migrant Workers’ Remittances and Rural Development in China (Huang Ping and Zhan Shaohua), Impacts of Internal Migration on Economic Growth and Urban Development in China (Cai Fang and Wang Dewen), International Migration and Development: The Case of China (Zai Liang and Hideki Morooka), Remittances in the Latin American and Caribbean Region: A Review of its Economic Impact (Manuel Orozco)
- Summary
- Migration and Development: Within and Across Borders, is the outcome of an expert meeting organized jointly by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Centre on Migration Policy and Society (COMPAS). The articles selected for this volume are revised versions of some of the workshop papers that focused on issues related to labour migration. This narrower topical focus not only facilitates the framing of internal and international migration within sending and receiving areas and on different levels of social organization but also makes possible an examination of related methods of research and links to policy. The essays in this volume make clear that the livelihoods of many rural families and communities depend on both internal and international migration. Although both types of migration seem to provide access to work that can raise incomes and reduce poverty, international migration seems to offer considerably higher levels of remuneration.
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