World Migration Report

World Migration Report
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Publisher : World Migration Report
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9290687096
ISBN-13 : 9789290687092
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis World Migration Report by : United Nations Publications

Annotation This title examines both internal and international migration, at the city level and cities of the Global South. The report highlights the growing evidence of potential benefits of all forms of migration and mobility for city growth and development. It showcases innovative ways in which migration and urbanization policies can be better designed for the benefit of migrants and cities.

Urban Migrants in Rural Japan

Urban Migrants in Rural Japan
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 234
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ISBN-10 : 9781438478050
ISBN-13 : 1438478054
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Urban Migrants in Rural Japan by : Susanne Klien

Offers an in-depth ethnography of paradigm shifts in the lifestyles and values of youth in post-growth Japan. Urban Migrants in Rural Japan provides a fresh perspective on theoretical notions of rurality and emerging modes of working and living in post-growth Japan. By exploring narratives and trajectories of individuals who relocate from urban to rural areas and seek new modes of working and living, this multisited ethnography reveals the changing role of rurality, from postwar notions of a stagnant backwater to contemporary sites of experimentation. The individual cases presented in the book vividly illustrate changing lifestyles and perceptions of work. What emerges from Urban Migrants in Rural Japan is the emotionally fraught quest of many individuals for a personally fulfilling lifestyle and the conflicting neoliberal constraints many settlers face. In fact, flexibility often coincides with precarity and self-exploitation. Susanne Klien shows how mobility serves as a strategic mechanism for neophytes in rural Japan who hedge their bets; gain time; and seek assurance, inspiration, and courage to do (or further postpone doing) what they ultimately feel makes sense to them. “This book is a valuable contribution to knowledge about diversifying rural Japan and evokes reflection about the future of post-growth Japan. Klien’s study benefits from assiduous and long-term field research and insightful analysis. She excels at locating the specifics of the study in theoretical observations and concepts, thereby setting the work into a larger consideration of Japan’s paradigm shifts in lifestyle and values.” — Nancy Rosenberger, author of Gambling with Virtue: Japanese Women and the Search for Self in a Changing Nation

Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China

Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China
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Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
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ISBN-10 : 9789048552184
ISBN-13 : 9048552184
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China by : Lena Kaufmann

How do rural Chinese households deal with the conflicting pressures of migrating into cities to work as well as staying at home to preserve their fields? This is particularly challenging for rice farmers, because paddy fields have to be cultivated continuously to retain their soil quality and value. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and written sources, this book describes farming households' strategic solutions to this predicament. It shows how, in light of rural-urban migration and agro-technological change, they manage to sustain both migration and farming. It innovatively conceives rural households as part of a larger farming community of practice that spans both staying and migrating household members and their material world. Focusing on one exemplary resource - paddy fields - it argues that socio-technical resources are key factors in understanding migration flows and migrant-home relations. Overall, this book provides rare insights into the rural side of migration and farmers' knowledge and agency.

Migration and Urban Transition in India

Migration and Urban Transition in India
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 269
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ISBN-10 : 9781000072693
ISBN-13 : 100007269X
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Migration and Urban Transition in India by : R. B. Bhagat

Migration has emerged as an important issue in contemporary global politics and in the discourse around human development. This book highlights the role of migration in socioeconomic development and its interdependence with urbanization, employment, labour and industry. This volume identifies the challenges which migration and the subsequent dynamism in population and spatial parameters pose to land-use patterns, ecology, social politics and international relations. Through a study of migration patterns and trends in different parts of India, this collection analyzes the relationship of migration with social and occupational mobility, poverty and wealth indices, inequality, distribution of resources and demographic change. It also explores policy measures and frameworks which can bring migration into the fold of national development strategies. Timely and comprehensive, the book underscores the importance of migration and urbanization, sustainability and inclusivity to economic growth and development. It will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of migration studies, political studies, sociology, urban studies, development studies and political sociology.

Crossing the Divide

Crossing the Divide
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 705
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ISBN-10 : 9780197602157
ISBN-13 : 0197602150
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Crossing the Divide by : Robert E.B. Lucas

"The magnitudes, nature, causes, and consequences of population movements between rural and urban sectors of developing countries are examined. The prior literature is reviewed, proving limited in key dimensions. Evidence is presented from a new database encompassing nationally representative data on seventy-five developing countries. Several measures of migration propensities are derived for the separate countries. The situation in each country is documented, both in historical context and following the time of enumeration. Rural-urban migrants enjoy major gains; those who do not move forego substantial, potential gains. Barriers to migrating are very real for disadvantaged groups. Migration among ethnolinguistic communities is a pervasive theme; the context in which each group lives is detailed. Upward mobility in incomes in towns is affirmed, and the departure of adults from rural homes raises living standards of the family left behind but consequent separation of married couples is endemic to particular societies. Reclassification of rural areas as urban is shown to be more important than net rural-urban moves in incremental urbanization and rural-urban moves are less permanent than normally portrayed. A contention of symmetry between rural-urban and urban-rural migration propensities is rejected and indications that these twin movements result in sorting of labor by skills is not supported. Moreover, step and onward migration are not as common as popularly claimed. Previously neglected topics studied include autonomous migration by women, child migration, and networks at origin. Policies to limit rural-urban migration are questioned, rather planning for managed urban growth is vital as climate change continues. Key words: Rural, urban, migration, development, literature, database, reclassification, sorting, policies"--

Migrants and Urban Change

Migrants and Urban Change
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 375
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ISBN-10 : 9781317315933
ISBN-13 : 1317315936
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Migrants and Urban Change by : Anne Winter

Taking the Belgian city of Antwerp as a case-study, this book argues that the direction of nineteenth century societal change was such as to make some groups of people better suited to reap the benefits of new opportunities.

Immigrants, Integration and Cities Exploring the Links

Immigrants, Integration and Cities Exploring the Links
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Publisher : OECD Publishing
Total Pages : 196
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ISBN-10 : 9789264162952
ISBN-13 : 926416295X
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Immigrants, Integration and Cities Exploring the Links by : OECD

This publication analyses in detail the nature and content of policies being implemented to promote the integration of immigrants in urban areas.

Migrants and City-Making

Migrants and City-Making
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 255
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ISBN-10 : 9780822372011
ISBN-13 : 0822372010
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Migrants and City-Making by : Ayse Çaglar

In Migrants and City-Making Ayşe Çağlar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the participation of migrants in the unequal networks of power that connect their lives to regional, national, and global institutions. Grounding their work in comparative ethnographies of three cities struggling to regain their former standing—Mardin, Turkey; Manchester, New Hampshire; and Halle/Saale, Germany—Çağlar and Glick Schiller challenge common assumptions that migrants exist on society’s periphery, threaten social cohesion, and require integration. Instead Çağlar and Glick Schiller explore their multifaceted role as city-makers, including their relationships to municipal officials, urban developers, political leaders, business owners, community organizers, and social justice movements. In each city Çağlar and Glick Schiller met with migrants from around the world; attended cultural events, meetings, and religious services; and patronized migrant-owned businesses, allowing them to gain insights into the ways in which migrants build social relationships with non-migrants and participate in urban restoration and development. In exploring the changing historical contingencies within which migrants live and work, Çağlar and Glick Schiller highlight how city-making invariably involves engaging with the far-reaching forces that dispossess people of their land, jobs, resources, neighborhoods, and hope.

Rural Women in Urban China

Rural Women in Urban China
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Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Total Pages : 270
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ISBN-10 : 0765621606
ISBN-13 : 9780765621603
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Rural Women in Urban China by : Tamara Jacka

Based on in-depth ethnographic research (using an approach that seeks to understand how migration is experienced by the migrants themselves) a first-hand account of the experiences of women in rural China who joined the vast migration to Beijing and other cities at the end of the twentieth century.

Migration, Urbanity and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World

Migration, Urbanity and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 183
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ISBN-10 : 9783030673659
ISBN-13 : 3030673650
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Migration, Urbanity and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World by : Catherine Lejeune

This open access book draws a theoretically productive triangle between urban studies, theories of cosmopolitanism, and migration studies in a global context. It provides a unique, encompassing and situated view on the various relations between cosmopolitanism and urbanity in the contemporary world. Drawing on a variety of cities in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa and North America, it overcomes the Eurocentric bias that has marked debate on cosmopolitanism from its inception. The contributions highlight the crucial role of migrants as actors of urban change and targets of urban policies, thus reconciling empirical and normative approaches to cosmopolitanism. By addressing issues such as cosmopolitanism and urban geographies of power, locations and temporalities of subaltern cosmopolites, political meanings and effects of cosmopolitan practices and discourses in urban contexts, it revisits contemporary debates on superdiversity, urban stratification and local incorporation, and assess the role of migration and mobility in globalization and social change.