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When Distance Drives Destination, Towns Can Stimulate Development
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,

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While city migrants see their welfare increase much more than those moving to towns, many more rural-urban migrants end up in towns. This phenomenon, documented in detail in Kagera, Tanzania, begs the question why migrants move to seemingly suboptimal destinations. Using an 18-year panel of individuals from this region and information on the possible destinations from the census, this study documents, through dyadic regressions and controlling for individual heterogeneity, how the deterrence of further distance to cities (compared to towns) largely trumps the attraction from their promise of greater wealth, making towns more appealing destinations. Education mitigates these effects (lesser deterrence from distance, greater attraction from wealth), while poverty reduces the attraction of wealth, consistent with the notion of urban sorting. With about two-thirds of the rural population in low-income countries living within two hours from a town, these findings underscore the importance of vibrant towns for inclusive development.

Méthodes de mesure de la mobilité spatiale : Migrations internes, mobilité temporaire, navettes
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ISBN: 2733220098 2733290363 9782733220092 Year: 2021 Publisher: Paris : Ined Éditions,

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La première édition de cet ouvrage, en 1988, s’était faite dans un contexte où les méthodes d’analyse et de mesure de la mobilité spatiale connaissaient un important regain d’intérêt, notamment de la part des gouvernements. L’urbanisation et les changements dans la répartition spatiale des populations, ainsi que leur incidence sur les structures économiques et sociales nécessitaient en effet des outils d’analyse adaptés. Enrichie d’une nouvelle présentation, la réédition du manuel s’imposait, tant l’outil s’était révélé indispensable pour tout chercheur travaillant sur les mobilités spatiales et les migrations. Concepts, présentation et analyse des sources, directes (enquêtes, registres, recensements…) ou indirectes (estimations, autres statistiques…), définitions synthétiques des indices et des taux, démonstrations pratiques de leur utilisation, méthodes de calcul et estimations des flux composent ce manuel pratique offrant un panorama méthodologique complet. Du fait de l’ampleur et de la complexité inédites prises par les phénomènes migratoires, les sources se sont aujourd’hui développées et diversifiées. Pour mieux les comprendre et les analyser, l’apport de méthodes quantitatives ayant fait leurs preuves s’avère plus que jamais nécessaire.


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Confessionalism and mobility in early modern Ireland
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ISBN: 9780198870913 0198870914 Year: 2021 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

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Rural-Urban Migration in Developing Countries : Lessons from the Literature
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,

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This paper reviews the recent literature on rural-urban migration in developing countries, focusing on three key questions: What motivates or forces people to migrate?What costs do migrants face? What are the impacts of migration on migrants and the economy? The literature paints a complex picture whereby rural-urban migration is driven by many factors and the returns to migration as well as the costs are very high. The evidence supports the notion that migration barriers hinder labor market adjustment and are likely to be welfare reducing. The review concludes by identifying gaps in current research and data needs.


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The Global Horizon : Expectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East
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ISBN: 9461661258 9789461661258 9789058679062 9058679063 9461663994 Year: 2021 Publisher: Leuven Leuven University Press

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Although contemporary migration in and from Africa can be understood as a continuation of earlier forms of interregional and international migration, current processes of migration seem to have taken on a new quality. This volume argues that one of the main reasons for this is the fact that local worlds are increasingly measured against a set of possibilities whose referents are global, not local. Due to this globalization of the personal and societal horizons of possibilities in Africa and elsewhere, in many contexts migration gains an almost inevitable attraction while, at the same time, act


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Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England
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ISBN: 9048552281 946372074X Year: 2021 Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

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What did it mean to be a stranger in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England? How were other nations, cultures, and religions perceived? What happened when individuals moved between languages, countries, religions, and spaces? Following the model of Raymond Williams's classic Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (1976), Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility analyses a selection of terms that were central to the conceptualisation of identity, race, migration, and transculturality in the early modern period. In many cases, the concepts, preconceptions, and debates that they embody - or sometimes subsume - came to play formative roles in the articulation of identity, rights, and power in subsequent periods. Together, the essays in this volume provide an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the development of issues of identity, belonging, and human mobility.


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Movers and stayers : the partisan transformation of twenty-first century southern politics
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ISBN: 0190052937 0190052910 0190052929 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York, New York : Oxford University Press,

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Democrats once dominated the 'Solid South.' By the turn of the 21st century, Republicans had taken control. We are in the midst of the dawning of new, more progressive era. Theories explaining Republican growth provide little guidance, but a new perspective - movers and stayers theory - explains this recent growth in Democratic support and the ways in which population growth has produced it.


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Becoming Middle Class : Young People’s Migration between Urban Centres in Ethiopia
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ISBN: 9811635374 9811635366 Year: 2021 Publisher: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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‘This is a fascinating case study of the physical geography related to social upward mobility. It explores urban to urban migration in two Ethiopian cities, shaping distinct features of a lifestyle, thereby tracing the unconscious formation of a specific identity and social group. An important contribution to the current debate on African middle classes.’ —Professor Henning Melber, University of Pretoria, University of the Free State and Nordic Africa Institute ‘This is a richly informed, empirically grounded, sensitive and refreshingly innovative addition to our understanding of the nuanced complexities of being middle class in Africa, and of the importance of class in comprehending migration as a differential experience.’ —Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town, South Africa This book is an ethnography of urban-to-urban migration and its role in middle-class formation in Ethiopia. Through an examination of the intersections and tensions between physical movement and social mobility, it considers how young Tigrayan people’s migration between urban centres made them distinct from both international migrants and non-migrants. Based on fieldwork in Adigrat and Addis Ababa, it focuses on these young people’s notions of progress, experiences of higher education and ethnic tensions to demonstrate how their movements enabled them to enhance their economic, social and symbolic capital while their cultural capital remained largely unchanged. The book provides new insights into the opportunities and constraints for upward social mobility and argues that the emergence of shared characteristics among urban-to-urban migrants led to the formation of a group that can be described as a middle class in Ethiopia.


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Advanced Introduction to Mobilities
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ISBN: 9781788979580 9781788979566 1788979583 1788979567 9781788979573 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cheltenham Edward Elgar

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Leading mobilities theorist Mimi Sheller offers an up-to-date, comprehensive analysis of the complex mobility disruptions of the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath in this timely Advanced Introduction. It outlines the formation of the interdisciplinary field of mobility studies, arguing that mobilities theory is crucial to planning post-pandemic recovery, sustainable communities, and low-carbon transitions. From tourism to migration to urban infrastructure, to informal and reproductive mobilities, Sheller reveals how multiple im/mobilities are interconnected, as the novel coronavirus reminds us as it hitchhikes across the globe through its human hosts. (Provided by publisher)


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On Many Routes : Internal, European, and Transatlantic Migration in the Late Habsburg Empire
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ISBN: 1557539820 1557539812 1557539839 Year: 2021 Publisher: West Lafayette, Indiana : Baltimore, Md. : Purdue University Press, Project MUSE,

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"On Many Routes is about the history of human migration. With a focus on the Habsburg Empire, this innovative work presents an integrated and creative study of spatial mobilities: from short to long term, and intranational and inter-European to transatlantic. Migration was not just relegated to city folk, but likewise was the reality for rural dwellers, and we gain a better understanding of how sending and receiving states and shipping companies worked together to regulate migration and shape populations. Bringing historical census data, governmental statistics, and ship manifests into conversation with centuries-old migration patterns of servants, agricultural workers, seasonal laborers, peddlers, and artisans-both male and female-this research argues that Central Europeans have long been mobile, that this mobility has been driven by diverse motivations, and that post-1850 transatlantic migration was an obvious extension of earlier spatial mobility patterns. Demonstrating the complexity of human mobility via an exploration of the links between overseas, continental, and internal migrations, On Many Routes shows that migrations to the United States, to the nearest coalfield, and to the urban capitals are embedded within complicated patterns of movement. There is no good reason to study internal apart from transnational moves, and combining these fields brings ample possibility to make migration research more relevant for the much broader field of social and economic history. This work poses an invaluable resource to the understudied area of Habsburg Empire migration studies, which it relocates within its wider European context and provides a major methodological contribution to the history of human migration more broadly. The ubiquity and functionality of human movement sheds light on the relationship between human nature and society, and challenges simplistic notions of human mobility then and now"--

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HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary --- Migration, Internal --- Emigration and immigration --- Internal migration --- Mobility --- Population geography --- Internal migrants --- Immigration --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Colonization --- History. --- United States --- Europe --- Central Europe --- Austria --- Europe, Central --- al-Nimsā --- Alpen- und Donau-Reichsgaue --- Ao-ti-li --- Austrian Republic --- Ausztria --- Autriche (Republic) --- Avstrii︠a︡ --- Avstrija --- Avusturya --- Deutschösterreich --- German Austria --- Österreich --- Ostmark --- Østrig --- Osṭriyah --- Ōsutoria --- Rakousko --- Republic of Austria --- Republik Österreich --- אוסטריה --- オーストリア --- Austro-Hungarian Monarchy --- Holy Roman Empire --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- ABŞ --- ABSh --- Ameerika Ühendriigid --- America (Republic) --- Amerika Birlăshmish Shtatlary --- Amerika Birlăşmi Ştatları --- Amerika Birlăşmiş Ştatları --- Amerika ka Kelenyalen Jamanaw --- Amerika Qūrama Shtattary --- Amerika Qŭshma Shtatlari --- Amerika Qushma Shtattary --- Amerika (Republic) --- Amerikai Egyesült Államok --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi͡avks Shtattnė --- Amerikări Pĕrleshu̇llĕ Shtatsem --- Amerikas Forenede Stater --- Amerikayi Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Ameriketako Estatu Batuak --- Amirika Carékat --- AQSh --- Ar. ha-B. --- Arhab --- Artsot ha-Berit --- Artzois Ha'bris --- Bí-kok --- Ē.P.A. --- É.-U. --- EE.UU. --- Egyesült Államok --- ĒPA --- Estados Unidos --- Estados Unidos da América do Norte --- Estados Unidos de América --- Estaos Xuníos --- Estaos Xuníos d'América --- Estatos Unitos --- Estatos Unitos d'America --- Estats Units d'Amèrica --- Ètats-Unis d'Amèrica --- États-Unis d'Amérique --- ÉU --- Fareyniḳṭe Shṭaṭn --- Feriene Steaten --- Feriene Steaten fan Amearika --- Forente stater --- FS --- Hēnomenai Politeiai Amerikēs --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- Hiwsisayin Amerikayi Miatsʻeal Tērutʻiwnkʻ --- Istadus Unidus --- Jungtinės Amerikos valstybės --- Mei guo --- Mei-kuo --- Meiguo --- Mî-koet --- Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Miguk --- Na Stàitean Aonaichte --- NSA --- S.U.A. --- SAD --- Saharat ʻAmērikā --- SASht --- Severo-Amerikanskie Shtaty --- Severo-Amerikanskie Soedinennye Shtaty --- Si͡evero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty --- Sjedinjene Američke Države --- Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Severnoĭ Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Si͡evernoĭ Ameriki --- Spojené obce severoamerické --- Spojené staty americké --- SShA --- Stadoù-Unanet Amerika --- Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá --- Stany Zjednoczone --- Stati Uniti --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Stâts Unîts --- Stâts Unîts di Americhe --- Steatyn Unnaneysit --- Steatyn Unnaneysit America --- SUA --- Sŭedineni amerikanski shtati --- Sŭedinenite shtati --- Tetã peteĩ reko Amérikagua --- U.S. --- U.S.A. --- United States of America --- Unol Daleithiau --- Unol Daleithiau America --- Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Ameriko --- US --- USA --- Usono --- Vaeinigte Staatn --- Vaeinigte Staatn vo Amerika --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Verenigde State van Amerika --- Verenigde Staten --- VS --- VSA --- Wááshindoon Bikéyah Ałhidadiidzooígíí --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amirīkīyah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amrīkīyah --- Yhdysvallat --- Yunaeted Stet --- Yunaeted Stet blong Amerika --- ZDA --- Združene države Amerike --- Zʹi͡ednani Derz͡havy Ameryky --- Zjadnośone staty Ameriki --- Zluchanyi͡a Shtaty Ameryki --- Zlucheni Derz͡havy --- ZSA

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