Who Goes Next? The Gendered Expansion of Mexican and Senegalese Migrant Sibling Networks in Space and Time

2019 ◽  
Vol 684 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-164
Author(s):  
Fernando Riosmena ◽  
Mao-Mei Liu
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
Migrant Networks ◽  
Mexican Families ◽  
Migration Literature ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Mexican Migrant ◽  
Feminization Of Migration

The migration literature shows that individuals whose siblings have migrated abroad are more likely to migrate, yet we know little about sibling migrant networks. We use MMP and MAFE-Senegal survey data to compare migration patterns in two very disparate contexts (Mexico and Senegal) in an attempt to assess the scope, manner, and generalizability of sibling network migration patterns. Our results show that while Senegalese families are likely to have one international migrant, Mexican families are likely to send two or more members abroad. Sibling migrations from Mexico fall closer together in time than do those from Senegal, suggesting joint sibling migration. Also, while Mexican sibling networks did not seem to contribute to the expansion of Mexican migrant destinations, Senegalese sibling networks did contribute (slightly) to the expansion of Senegalese migration. Sibling networks in both settings contributed considerably to the feminization of migration.

scholarly journals Spatial and space-time correlations in systems of subpopulations with genetic drift and migration.

Genetics ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 133 (3) ◽  
pp. 711-727
Author(s):  
B K Epperson
Keyword(s):  
Population Genetics ◽  
Time Correlation ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Spatial Correlations ◽  
Gene Frequencies ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
Migration Rates ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Time Correlations ◽  
And Migration

Abstract The geographic distribution of genetic variation is an important theoretical and experimental component of population genetics. Previous characterizations of genetic structure of populations have used measures of spatial variance and spatial correlations. Yet a full understanding of the causes and consequences of spatial structure requires complete characterization of the underlying space-time system. This paper examines important interactions between processes and spatial structure in systems of subpopulations with migration and drift, by analyzing correlations of gene frequencies over space and time. We develop methods for studying important features of the complete set of space-time correlations of gene frequencies for the first time in population genetics. These methods also provide a new alternative for studying the purely spatial correlations and the variance, for models with general spatial dimensionalities and migration patterns. These results are obtained by employing theorems, previously unused in population genetics, for space-time autoregressive (STAR) stochastic spatial time series. We include results on systems with subpopulation interactions that have time delay lags (temporal orders) greater than one. We use the space-time correlation structure to develop novel estimators for migration rates that are based on space-time data (samples collected over space and time) rather than on purely spatial data, for real systems. We examine the space-time and spatial correlations for some specific stepping stone migration models. One focus is on the effects of anisotropic migration rates. Partial space-time correlation coefficients can be used for identifying migration patterns. Using STAR models, the spatial, space-time, and partial space-time correlations together provide a framework with an unprecedented level of detail for characterizing, predicting and contrasting space-time theoretical distributions of gene frequencies, and for identifying features such as the pattern of migration and estimating migration rates in experimental studies of genetic variation over space and time.

Feminization of Indian Migration: Patterns and Prospects

2021 ◽  
pp. 002190962110495
Author(s):  
Amba Pande
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Process ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
Female Migration ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Important Field ◽  
The Government ◽  
Feminization Of Migration ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
Critical Policy ◽  
Developmental Dynamics

The migration of women or female migration has emerged as an important field of research within the larger domain of migration studies and is being extensively explored under various disciplines. This growing trend can be attributed to some major developments in international migration such as rising numbers of women migrants, growth of women-centric occupations, migration of women in an independent capacity, women-related legislations and growth of gendered perspectives on various issues. These factors together increased the visibility of women in the migration process and have given rise to what has been termed the ‘feminization of migration’. This paper explores the various nuances of the feminization of migration and aspects of female migration focusing on India. It begins with an overview of the growing numbers of women in the migratory flows and goes on to determine that despite the rising numbers and increased participation of women in the developmental dynamics of migration, they remain increasingly vulnerable and exposed to exploitation. The paper also highlights some of the critical policy decisions of the Government of India. The paper concludes that feminization of migration has undoubtedly increased the visibility of women in the migration discourse but much more needs to be done in terms of generating appropriate data, highlighting women’s role in the developmental process, evolving policies for ensuring their protection and security and above all empowering them and increasing their participation in the labour market.

Church Records as a Source of Data on Mexican Migrant Networks: A Methodological Note

1984 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 767-781
Author(s):  
Ina Rosenthal-Urey
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Studies ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Mexican Migration ◽  
Recent Issue ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Migrant Networks ◽  
Migration Networks ◽  
Mexican Migrant

This article discusses the methodological issues in the study of Mexican migration initiated by Cornelius and others in a recent issue of this journal (1982). It addresses two problems: the need to locate strategic regions in Mexico before field-work is begun; and the need to develop techniques for longitudinal studies of migration networks.

scholarly journals Dispatches from the neighborhood watch: Using citizen science and field survey data to document color morph frequency in space and time

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1526-1538
Author(s):  
Richard M. Lehtinen ◽  
Brian M. Carlson ◽  
Alyssa R. Hamm ◽  
Alexis G. Riley ◽  
Maria M. Mullin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Color Morph ◽  
Neighborhood Watch ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Morph Frequency

scholarly journals A Critical Analysis of the Drivers of Human Migration Patterns in the Presence of Climate Change: A New Conceptual Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (17) ◽  
pp. 6036
Author(s):  
Rebecca Parrish ◽  
Tim Colbourn ◽  
Paolo Lauriola ◽  
Giovanni Leonardi ◽  
Shakoor Hajat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Human Migration ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
Migration Literature ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Health Progress ◽  
And Migration

Both climate change and migration present key concerns for global health progress. Despite this, a transparent method for identifying and understanding the relationship between climate change, migration and other contextual factors remains a knowledge gap. Existing conceptual models are useful in understanding the complexities of climate migration, but provide varying degrees of applicability to quantitative studies, resulting in non-homogenous transferability of knowledge in this important area. This paper attempts to provide a critical review of climate migration literature, as well as presenting a new conceptual model for the identification of the drivers of migration in the context of climate change. It focuses on the interactions and the dynamics of drivers over time, space and society. Through systematic, pan-disciplinary and homogenous application of theory to different geographical contexts, we aim to improve understanding of the impacts of climate change on migration. A brief case study of Malawi is provided to demonstrate how this global conceptual model can be applied into local contextual scenarios. In doing so, we hope to provide insights that help in the more homogenous applications of conceptual frameworks for this area and more generally.

International Migration from the Dominican Republic: Findings from a National Survey

1979 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Ugalde ◽  
Frank D. Bean ◽  
Gilbert Cárdenas
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
International Migration ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Return Migration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Migration Patterns

The Dominican migration to the United States has been primarily directed to the New York area. The officially reported addresses given by Dominican aliens to the INS suggest a heavy concentration in the New York/New Jersey region. Using survey data, this study seeks to provide a profile of international Dominican migrants most of whom come to the United States. Reasons for migration by age, sex, and social strata are discussed, and an examination of return migration patterns is presented.

scholarly journals A Regretful Journey Home: Albanian Return Migration in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elida Cena ◽  
Derek Heim
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Country Of Origin ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
Return Migrants ◽  
Migration Literature ◽  
Family Case ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Outward Migration ◽  
Depth Interviews

AbstractDespite occurring almost a decade ago, the effects of the 2008 global financial crisis continue to influence the lives of many people today. Intra-European migration literature, for example, suggests that migration patterns were reshaped in its aftermath and emerging literature details mobilities and experiences of migrants in destination societies post-crisis. To date, less research documents the experiences of individuals who, in the wake of the crisis, were forced to abandon their migratory endeavours and had to navigate returning to their country of origin in a particularly challenging socio-economic context. Utilising in-depth interviews and family case studies with purposively recruited Albanian return migrants who had lived in Greece and Italy pre-crisis, the current study highlights how conditions in both destination and origin countries impacted return experiences. Findings illustrate an adverse interplay of circumstances that led to the unsettled return and portray a perturbing fluidity in the lives of return migrants who appear overcome by a sense of ‘double failure’ with regard to both outward migration and subsequent return to their country of origin.

scholarly journals Colonies of the Little Motherland: Membership, Space, and Time in Mexican Migrant Hometown Associations

2008 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
Driving Forces ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Hometown Associations ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Sedentary Population ◽  
Transnational Community ◽  
Mexican Migrant ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
And Migration

The hometown associations (HTAs) formed by international migrants sharing a place of origin are considered the quintessential “transnational” institution linking migrants to family and townspeople who stayed behind. Scholars of transnationalism present HTAs as the expression of a new kind of “transnational community” or “transnational social field” that is redefining what it means to belong to a community by including people who are physically absent but who make their presence felt through regular visits and remittances and by sponsoring charity and development projects in their hometown. New transportation and communication technologies stretching the limits of space and time are said to be the driving forces that allow migrants to belong to a single community anchored in multiple, distant geographic localities. Such migrants transcend the old boundaries of territorial belonging that depended on a sedentary population, and call into question basic social scientific concepts like “citizenship,” “community,” “nation-state,” and “migration.” Even the most recent transnationalism literature, which has retreated from some earlier claims of novelty to rediscover transborder practices of older migrations, continues to claim that new conceptions of membership are necessary to understand both new and older practices (Basch, Schiller, and Blanc 1994; Levitt 2001; Portes and Landolt 2002; Smith 2006).

Remaking lives and community in the gooseless goose capital of the world

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Braden Thomas Leap
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
The World ◽  
In Trans ◽  
The University ◽  
Ways Of Life

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Climate change is disrupting and will continue to disrupt peoples' lives and communities all over the world. Nevertheless, a vast majority of research has focused on the environmental and/oreconomic consequences of the phenomena, while relatively little attention has been granted to how people manage to refashion their identities, cultures, and communities. This is a dramatic oversight precisely because selves and ways of life will have to be refashioned in response to environmental transformations associated with climate change if communities are to be sustained. Accordingly, in this dissertation I utilize data from over a year and a half of ethnographic fieldwork in Sumner, Missouri to analyze how people had been and were remaking their identities, culture, and community in response to a shift in trans-national goose migration patterns that was facilitated, at least in part, by climate change. I make the following three arguments. First, lives and communities will be remade through coconstitutive interactions between multiple (non)human things, beings, and institutions across scales of space and time. Second, absences and uncertainties will be crucially important to how people reconstruct their lives and communities. Third, inequalities inform and are remade through adaptations to climate change. Combined, I argue the complexities of communities can provide vital resources for facilitating adaptations, but that these complexities can and do shape adaptations in ways that can facilitate the reproduction, or even intensification, of inequalities.

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