The book offers an innovative theoretical account of the causes, nature and extent of the movement of international migrants between affluent and poorer countries. The book also provides a conceptual study of migration decision-making and the dynamics of international movement.
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`a fascinating and critical overview of the dominant theories of migration that is well worth reading, and adds valuably to the increasing contemporary literature on this subject.' Jeff Handmaker, The Ethnic Conflict, Vol.3, No.2
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Thomas Faist is Lecturer, Institute for Intercultural and International Studies, University of Bremen.
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There is a baffling puzzle in international migration: Why are there so few migrants from so many places and so many from only a few places? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cumulative immobility, meso link, recurrent migrants, territorial exit, pioneer migrants, human capital migrants, transnational reciprocity, transnational social spaces, eri ties, situ adaptation, syncretist forms, feedback causation, diffuse solidarity, symbolic ties, migrant networks, many international migrants, immigration states, recurrent migration, rotational principle, illicit migration, migration merchants, migration curve, relative frustration, ethnic pluralists, potential migrants Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War Two, United States, North America, World War One, Geneva Convention, Middle East, United Kingdom, South-East Asia, Federal Republic, New York City, The Micro Level, Central Anatolia, The Macro Level, The Polish Peasant, African Americans, Georg Simmel, Saudi Arabia, Statistisches Bundesamt New!
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There is a baffling puzzle in international migration: Why are there so few migrants from so many places and so many from only a few places? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cumulative immobility, meso link, recurrent migrants, territorial exit, pioneer migrants, human capital migrants, transnational reciprocity, transnational social spaces, eri ties, situ adaptation, syncretist forms, feedback causation, diffuse solidarity, symbolic ties, migrant networks, many international migrants, immigration states, recurrent migration, rotational principle, illicit migration, migration merchants, migration curve, relative frustration, ethnic pluralists, potential migrants Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War Two, United States, North America, World War One, Geneva Convention, Middle East, United Kingdom, South-East Asia, Federal Republic, New York City, The Micro Level, Central Anatolia, The Macro Level, The Polish Peasant, African Americans, Georg Simmel, Saudi Arabia, Statistisches Bundesamt New!
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- International Migration 1995: Migrants Entering or Leaving the United Kingdom and England and Wales (MN) by Office for National Statistics in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Readings in Social Geography by Emrys Jones in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Polish Peasant in Europe and America: A CLASSIC WORK IN IMMIGRATION HISTORY by William Thomas on page 99, and Back Matter
- West Germany (Countries of the World) by Barbara Einhorn in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Migration and European Integration: The Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion by Robert Miles in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- International Migration Research: Constructions, Omissions And The Promises Of Interdisciplinary (Research in Migration and Ethnic Relations) by Michael Bommes in Front Matter, page 65, and page 126
- A Global Clan: Scottish Migrant Networks and Identity since the Eighteenth Century (International Library of Historical Studies) by Angela McCarthy on page 120
- The Experience of Return Migration: Caribbean Perspectives by Robert B. Potter on page 278
- Networks, Trust And Social Capital: Theoretical And Empirical Investigations From Europe by Sokratis M. Koniordos on page 115
- The Politics of Migration and Immigration in Europe (SAGE Politics Texts series) by Andrew Geddes in Back Matter
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