International Migration as Occupational Mobility: The Case of Germany

This chapter addresses three major trends of migration in China. The first part of the chapter explores the causes, characteristics, and consequences of migration from rural areas to the city. Our discussion focuses on earning differentials, workplace experiences, intergenerational occupational mobility, housing, residential segregation, health care and social services. The second part discusses the characteristics and issues related to migration from one city to another. Finally, the chapter investigates international migration to China. The discussion highlights the extent of rural-to-urban migration in China, which has often been described as a crisis, and explores why and how the trend in migration has reached a crisis level.

International Migration as Occupational Mobility

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2166767 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Dean R. Lillard ◽

Anna Manzoni

Keyword(s):

International Migration ◽

Occupational Mobility

International Migration

Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition Online ◽

10.1017/isbn-9780511132971.ad.ess.01 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Robert Barde ◽

Susan B. Carter ◽

Richard Sutch

Keyword(s):

International Migration

International migration and environment: discussing the role of social remittances

MONDI MIGRANTI ◽

10.3280/mm2017-003009 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 185-199

Author(s):

Giulia Iannuzzi

Keyword(s):

International Migration ◽

Social Remittances

Overcoming Challenges of International Migration Research: A Case Study Approach in Southern Mexico

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v13i1.268 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 131-143

Author(s):

Julie Boyles

Keyword(s):

International Migration ◽

Common Ground ◽

Data Gathering ◽

Ethnographic Case Study ◽

Case Study Approach ◽

Southern Mexico ◽

Mixed Methods Approach ◽

Study Approach ◽

Migration Research

An ethnographic case study approach to understanding women’s actions and reactions to husbands’ emigration—or potential emigration—offers a distinct set of challenges to a U.S.-based researcher. International migration research in a foreign context likely offers challenges in language, culture, lifestyle, as well as potential gender norm impediments. A mixed methods approach contributed to successfully overcoming barriers through an array of research methods, strategies, and tactics, as well as practicing flexibility in data gathering methods. Even this researcher’s influence on the research was minimized and alleviated, to a degree, through ascertaining common ground with many of the women. Research with the women of San Juan Guelavía, Oaxaca, Mexico offered numerous and constant challenges, each overcome with ensuing rewards.

Migration vs. development? The case of poverty and inequality in Mexico

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v9i1.203 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 65-74 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Agustín Escobar Latapi

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

International Migration ◽

Latin American ◽

Opportunity Cost ◽

Inequality Index ◽

Poverty And Inequality ◽

And Migration

Although the migration – development nexus is widely recognized as a complex one, it is generally thought that there is a relationship between poverty and emigration, and that remittances lessen inequality. On the basis of Latin American and Mexican data, this chapter intends to show that for Mexico, the exchange of migrants for remittances is among the lowest in Latin America, that extreme poor Mexicans don't migrate although the moderately poor do, that remittances have a small, non-significant impact on the most widely used inequality index of all households and a very large one on the inequality index of remittance-receiving households, and finally that, to Mexican households, the opportunity cost of international migration is higher than remittance income. In summary, there is a relationship between poverty and migration (and vice versa), but this relationship is far from linear, and in some respects may be a perverse one for Mexico and for Mexican households.

Going North, coming South: Guatemalan migratory flows

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v6i2.74 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 155-164

Author(s):

Michelle J. Moran-Taylor

Keyword(s):

International Migration ◽

Return Migration ◽

Social Life ◽

Ethnographic Research ◽

New Ideas

Understanding the return aspect of international migration is vital because returnees replete with new ideas, perceptions on life, and monies affect every dimension of social life in migrants’ places of origin. Yet, return migration remains uneven and an understudied aspect of migratory flows because migration scholars have privileged why individuals migrate, the underlying motivations for their moves abroad, and how migrants assimilate and succeed in their destinations abroad. Drawing on ethnographic research, this article addresses the migratory flows of Ladino and Mayan Guatemalans: those who go North, but in particular, those who come South. And in doing so, it highlights their similar and divergent responses towards migration processes.

: Occupational Mobility in the United States 1930-1960 . A. J. Jaffe, R. O. Carleton.

Social Problems ◽

10.1525/sp.1955.3.2.03a00090 ◽

1955 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 119-119

Author(s):

Ely Chinoy

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Occupational Mobility ◽

The United States

International Migration and the Global Economic Order:An Overview

10.1596/1813-9450-2720 ◽

2001 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Andrés Solimano

Keyword(s):

International Migration