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Perceived Factors Influencing Younger Adults’ Rural-Urban Migration and its Implications on Left Behind Older Parents in Nsukka LGA: Practice Considerations for Gerontological Social Workers
As the number of young adults moving to urban areas increases, so does the number of older parents who are left behind in rural areas, where they...
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Housing Wellbeing and Settlement Intentions of Skilled Migrants in China: the Effects of Subjective Housing Feelings and Objective Housing Outcomes
Due to a shortage of qualified professionals, many international cities have implemented a range of policies to attract skilled migrants and retain...
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Why Migrants Stay in Small and Mid-sized Cities: Analytical and Comparative Insights
Small- and mid-sized cities in Canada, the USA, Australia, and New Zealand have increasingly looked to international migration to boost economic...
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Strangers in the Homeland? The Academic Performance of U.S.-Born Children of Return Migrants in Mexico
The number of return migrants from the U.S. to Mexico has swelled in recent years, yet we know little about the academic performance of the over...
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The Interactive Effect of Social Capital and Duration of Migration on Suicidal Behaviors Among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China: Evidence from a GIS/GPS-Assisted Probability Sample
Suicide for rural-to-urban migrants in China presents a challenge. Social capital as a modifiable factor is associated with suicidal behaviors at...
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Trajectories of Environmental Migrants: Understanding Migration Destinations of the Coastal Population in Kerala, India
While there is a growing focus on ‘who are environmental migrants,’ the questions ‘where do they go?’ and ‘why there?’ have often been overlooked. We...
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Unsponsored Migrants: The Expelled
As noted in Chapter 6 , state-managed and initiated migrants are typically more voluntary than is...
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The Effects of Health on the Settlement Intention of Rural–Urban Migrants: Evidence from Eight Chinese Cities
The growing number of rural–urban migrants in China has made it important to understand the factors contributing to this migration. By using data...
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Unsponsored Migrants: The Enterprising
Most internal migration is not through state-sponsored resettlement programs. State-sponsored migration is more common than we tend to think, and...
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Beyond informality: ‘Nimble peri-urban land transactions’ - how migrants on the margins trade, access and hold land for settlement
How do migrants on the margins trade, access, and hold land for settlement? This ethnographic inquiry based on a case study of Malawian migrants in...
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The Potential Causal Effect of Hukou on Health Among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
A number of economic studies have shown a strong positive correlation between urban household registration status ( hukou ) and better...
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The complex interplay of out-migration and urbanisation: rural to urban transformation in Murshidabad district, India
The process of Indian Urbanisation has been taking a different shape due to the emergence of numerous census towns. Existing literature reveals that...
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Epilogue: Chicken or Egg? The Role of Newcomer Migrants in the Revitalization of ‘Left-Behind’ Areas
This contribution questions the common assumptions and practices concerning the hosting of newcomers in depopulated, remote and disinvested places in...
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From risk reduction to a landscape of (un)desired outcomes: Climate migrants’ perceptions of migration success and failure
Much of the climate migration research examines whether migration is a successful/adaptive response that reduces climate risk or a failed/maladaptive...
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Evaluating the power of social media influencing mainstream media social representations of migrants in South African townships
The relationship between mainstream media and social media for news reporting is a complex one. Mainstream media news is relied on as a source of...
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Understanding the Socio-Economic Vulnerability in Child Malnutrition Between Migrants and Non-Migrants Children (12–59 Months) in India: Evidence from a Cross-Sectional Study
India has witnessed increasing trends in internal migration over the last three decades. In India, migrant children are not a homogeneous group and...
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Understanding of Health-Related Issues: Health Constraints Among Migrants?
This chapter moves on to study the migrants’ understanding and experience of health and health services access. The discussion mainly focuses on...
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Newcomers and ‘Roots Migrants’: Chain Migrations and the Revitalization of Rural Shrinking Areas in Spain
This article analyses the processes of rural shrinking/revitalisation in Spain from the perspective of chain mobilities. It attempts to go beyond the...
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“Nimble Sociality and Belonging”: an Ethnography of Migrants’ Responses to Bans on Associational Life During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Within the past few years, pandemics like HIV/AIDS, influenza, and SARS-CoV-2 have become common worldwide. The COVID-19 pandemic, which broke out...
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Dhaka: A City of Development and Deprivation for Environmentally Induced Migrants
DhakaDhaka, the capital of BangladeshBangladesh, is a cityEnvironmentally-induced migrants defined by inequalityInequality. It is not one...
