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PubMed1998

Are migrant minorities strategically self-selected?

"In this paper we focus on the possibility of migrants' self-selection through strategic remittances. We argue that migrants of a specific community might be pooled with migrants from other ethnic minorities on the labor market of the foreign host country and that this could reduce the occurrence of strategic remittances. In a simple model with two types of workers, skilled and unskilled, facing two possible actions, to migrate or not to migrate, we derive the theoretical conditions under which strategic transfers are still operating when pooling among communities is introduced."

Culture↗
PubMed1990

Contract labor recruitment from the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, 1950-1974.

The author examines the social, economic, and political context surrounding a contract labor system implemented in Papua New Guinea that was begun in the 1950s. "In its 25 years of operation the Highland Labour Scheme provided the mechanism whereby some 100,000 men migrated temporarily from their highland homes to work in the coastal districts of Papua New Guinea. This was a circular migration within their own country, for labor purposes only. The men did not take their families with them, and there was no element of redistribution of population from a highly populated area as there has been in migration schemes in the adjoining areas of Southeast Asia...."

Demography↗
PubMed2002

Prevalence of anti-HIV seropositivity in Myanmar migrators in a rural area of Thailand.

Although the prevalence of anti-HIV seropositivity in the Thai population has decreased in the recent years, migration of Myanmar labors as carriers into Thailand may increase the prevalence of anti-HIV seropositivity. Screening is recommended for the Myanmar migrators. Of interest, the epidemiology of anti-HIV seropositivity in Myanmar migrators has not been precisely determined. In this study, we report the prevalence of anti-HIV seropositivity in Myanmar migrators in a rural community in the Southern Region of Thailand with a high density of Myanmar migrators as fishermen. We analyzed the screening data for anti-HIV seropositivity among 250 Myanmar migrators (169 males and 81 females) who were in Thailand for less than 1 month. The anti-HIV seropositivity rate among these Myanmar migrants was 3.2%. The rates in males and females were 4.1% and 1.2%, respectively. Since these migrants can carry the disease into Thailand, screening tests as a prevention strategies are necessary.

Adult↗
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Migrants, workers and refugees: the political economy of population movements in the Middle East.

The author investigates causes and consequences of migratory movements in the Middle East. "Two factors--integration into the world labor market and the fragility of integration within the separate states--largely explain why conflicts in the Middle East have in recent years produced the greatest refugee flows of any region in the world.... The crisis of the secular nation-state in the Middle East will continue as states become either politically or economically more dependent on outside protection or assistance. The challenge by Islamist movements is also likely to undermine national cohesion by politicizing religious identity."

Demography↗
PubMed1982

Urbanization, interregional accessibility, and the decision to migrate.

Trends in population and labor force growth in nonmetropolitan areas of the United States during the 1970s are analyzed. The authors investigate the relationships among migration behavior, urban accessibility, and externalities such as congestion that are associated with urban residence. "A model of the migration decision [is examined] that incorporates in an explicit fashion this proximity-centrality relationship. Estimates of the model are also discussed, with specific attention given to the relationship under question. In addition, the age selectivity of the relationship [is] examined. Insights on the nonmetropolitan reversal drawn from the model estimates are discussed in a third section, followed by concluding remarks."

Age Factors↗
PubMed1995

The world economic system and international migration in less developed countries: an ecological approach.

"This paper analysed net migration within the context of [the] world economic system and urban ecological framework using the structural equation model." The author "employs linear structural equation modelling to examine determinants of international migration, using data from the World Bank World Tables, World Development Reports and the World Bank." (SUMMARY IN FRE AND SPA)

Agriculture↗
PubMed1988

Mexican migration to the United States: defacto rules.

"Migration from Mexico to the United States is viewed very differently by those two nations. The United States perspective is that of illegal immigrants invading their nation, especially during times of national unemployment. From the Mexican perspective, people migrate across the border in response to quite predictable labor supply and demand pressures. The fact that for many years the United States held undocumented labor to be punishable for the worker but not for the employer suggests a tacit recognition of the labor supply/demand factor, but a recognition tainted by discrimination."

Americas↗
PubMed1978

Some aspects of internal annual migration in India.

Data collected in 1973-1974 during the twenty-eighth round of the National Sample Survey are used to analyze annual internal migration in India. "The analysis reveals that [the in-migration] rate for all-India was estimated at 91 for the rural and 104 for the urban areas per 10,000 population. Out of the total migration intra-state migration was as high as 87 percent and more than 68 percent came from rural areas. The most important flow of migration was rural to rural and next to that was urban to urban followed by rural to urban and urban to rural." Findings are also presented concerning variations among states, rates of urbanization, the age and sex composition of migrants, reasons for migration, the educational level of labor migrants, and changes since the 1963-1964 round of the survey.

Age Distribution↗
PubMed1998

Migration, remittances, and inequality: estimating the net effects of migration on income distribution.

"This paper examines the net effects of migration and remittances on income distribution. Potential home earnings of migrants are imputed, as are the earnings of non-migrants in migrant households, in order to construct no-migration counterfactuals to compare with the observed income distribution including remittances. The earnings functions used to impute migrant home earnings are estimated from observations on non-migrants in a selection-corrected estimation framework which incorporates migration choice and labor-force participation decisions. For a sample of households in Bluefields, Nicaragua, migration and remittances increase income inequality when compared with the no-migration counterfactual."

Americas↗