Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/21632324.2019.1605745
Kalandi Charan Pradhan, K. Narayanan
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to understand the relationship between weather variation and temporary labor migration. In doing so, we investigate how labor migration is used as an adaptation strategy to weather variation for the select Indian semi-arid villages. We use crop yield deviation as a proxy variable for the weather variation at the household level. In order to investigate the objective of the study, we employ panel data of 210 households using Village Dynamic South Asia (VDSA) data set of six villages from the state of Telangana and Maharashtra for the period 2005–2014. We have used village, state and aggregate level logistic regression models to demonstrate how factors at each of these levels can influence temporary labor migration trajectories. The study finds that the score of crop yield deviation for the non-migrant households is higher as compared to migrant households, which shows that migrant households have a higher adaptive capacity to weather variation as compared to their counterpart households. Further, the empirical evidence from the logistic model shows that along with demographic and socio-economic factors, weather variation influences the temporary migration at aggregate level (full sample estimation). In addition to this, we also find that weather variation is statistically significant in determining temporary migration for entire Maharashtra at state level estimation and only one village (Kalman) at village level estimation.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/21632324.2019.1586342
Warren Dodd, Marvin Gómez Cerna, Paola Orellana, S. Humphries, A. Kipp, D. Cole
ABSTRACT Security concerns, including poverty and violence, are viewed as critical factors in understanding the drivers of and experiences with internal and international migration from Honduras. Drawing on a broad definition of human security that encompasses ‘freedom from fear’ and ‘freedom from want’, in addition to insights from critical and feminist security studies, we interrogate different dimensions of human security for rural households from one region of Honduras. We include data from 248 household surveys and a qualitative activity with 60 secondary school students to explore how experiences of security influence migration decisions and outcomes from this setting. For surveyed households, we find that migration contributed to enhanced economic and emotional security among family members left behind. Fear of violence was a prominent barrier to migration rather than a motivation for migration. Additionally, educational attainment raised personal and household expectations concerning the feasibility of migration to mitigate insecurity. Overall, we find human security to be a useful framework to understand motivations for and outcomes from migration among these rural households. However, the relationship between experiences of security and migration needs to be situated in the context of broader rural livelihoods, including local economic realities and intrahousehold characteristics.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/21632324.2019.1608099
Russell King, I. Gedeshi
ABSTRACT Since the end of communist rule in 1991, Albania has seen, proportionately, one of the largest outflows of its people of any country in the world – an emigrant stock in 2013 equivalent to 44% of its resident population. This article addresses two issues related to the future trend of Albanian migration. First, a migration module of 23 questions designed by the authors and attached to the 2018 round of the European Values Survey asked about future migration intentions. These were found to be high and increasing: 52% of 18 to 40-year-olds expressed their intention to migrate compared to 44% in a comparable survey in 2006/7. The top two desired destination countries have switched from Italy and Greece in the past to Germany and the USA in the latest survey, which also shows potential migration higher amongst the more-skilled and educated population compared to past trends. A subsample of returned migrants captured by the survey shows even higher intentions to migrate – 71%. Second, Albania’s anticipated migration transition, from a country of emigration to one of net immigration, is deferred if migration intentions correlate with migration outcomes, with obvious reflections on the country’s overall development trajectory.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-30DOI: 10.1080/21632324.2020.1753962
Munshi Israil Hossain
ABSTRACT The article attempts to explore the impacts of ‘social remittances’ on the economic activities of households belonging to labour migrants who migrate from a village of Bangladesh to Malaysia on temporary contractual basis. It reveals that there has been a clear difference of social remittance impacts on the economic activities between the first-cycle migrants and the repeat-cycle migrants. The economic activities of first-cycle migrants are not impacted by social remittances while the economic activities of repeat-cycle migrants are limitedly impacted. In understanding the dynamics of social remittance impacts, the article applies a conceptual framework of ‘social remittances’ explained by Peggy Levitt and rationalises it through migration governance of Malaysia and some factors, directly and indirectly related to migration governance, and other factors. The study conducts in-depth interviews on 20 first-cycle and repeat-cycle migrants who were from Madhupur Village of Bangladesh in 2011 and revisited the village in 2018.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-29DOI: 10.1080/21632324.2020.1756713
S. Cooley, Robert S. Hinck, Ethan Sample
ABSTRACT The goal of this study was to determine Northern Triangle (NT) migrants’ motivations for traveling to the US by examining regional media narratives describing how these political communities make sense of migration’s causes, solutions, and payoffs. Understanding these motivations is pivotal for crafting effective policy, especially given that mass migration from NT countries to the US continues to rise, with increasing numbers of families and unaccompanied children risking the journey despite higher levels of family unit apprehensions by CBP. The specific research questions this study answer concern first, how NT and Mexican media narratives on migration confront violence, institutional failures of state systems, and discuss incentives for migration (See Tables 2–4 for descriptive breakdown). Second, the study examines the larger context of how migration is made sense of in NT and Mexican media, including how US policy is viewed, through analysis of its discussions of migration routes, characterizations of migrants, the consequences of migration for the NT, Mexico, and the US, and identifies moral depictions of what good action may be in the form of policy. This research was funded by the Department of Homeland Security through the Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency at Arizona State University: G10002513.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-28DOI: 10.1080/21632324.2020.1748926
A. Chhetri, P. Chhetri, Supriya Singh, Shahadat Khan, C. Gomes
ABSTRACT This paper examines the changing spatial and temporal patterns of residential choices across different waves of migrants from the mainland China between 1941 and 2011. Moran’s I and GetisOrd Indices are computed to validate the spatial assimilation theory to identify the prevalence of spatial clustering of Chinese migrants at a local area level. The spatial autocorrelation indicates the spatial segregation of Chinese migrants during the first three migration waves. This segregation propensity, however, has marginally declined in the recent wave. Getis hotspot analysis nevertheless shows no significant locational shift in the spatial clusters of Chinese migrants. This indicates the existence of path dependency, whereby the recent wave of immigrants from China exhibits spatial segregation behaviour similar to those manifested by earlier waves. Key spatial migrant clustersaresustained over time. The mapped outputs show that Chinese migrants congregate at the higher end of the housing market, particularly in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. The analysis, therefore, rejects the conventional wisdom that migrants tend to spatially assimilate over time and they create urban ghettos or refuge for sheltering disadvantaged communities.
{"title":"Spatio-temporal evolution of Chinese migration in Melbourne, Australia","authors":"A. Chhetri, P. Chhetri, Supriya Singh, Shahadat Khan, C. Gomes","doi":"10.1080/21632324.2020.1748926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21632324.2020.1748926","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper examines the changing spatial and temporal patterns of residential choices across different waves of migrants from the mainland China between 1941 and 2011. Moran’s I and GetisOrd Indices are computed to validate the spatial assimilation theory to identify the prevalence of spatial clustering of Chinese migrants at a local area level. The spatial autocorrelation indicates the spatial segregation of Chinese migrants during the first three migration waves. This segregation propensity, however, has marginally declined in the recent wave. Getis hotspot analysis nevertheless shows no significant locational shift in the spatial clusters of Chinese migrants. This indicates the existence of path dependency, whereby the recent wave of immigrants from China exhibits spatial segregation behaviour similar to those manifested by earlier waves. Key spatial migrant clustersaresustained over time. The mapped outputs show that Chinese migrants congregate at the higher end of the housing market, particularly in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. The analysis, therefore, rejects the conventional wisdom that migrants tend to spatially assimilate over time and they create urban ghettos or refuge for sheltering disadvantaged communities.","PeriodicalId":74195,"journal":{"name":"Migration and development","volume":"11 1","pages":"252 - 272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21632324.2020.1748926","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48473608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-04-14DOI: 10.1080/21632324.2020.1746029
M. Göransson, Lotta Hultin, Magnus Mähring
ABSTRACT This study explores the role of mobile phones in livelihood creation among Syrian refugees in informal tented settlements in Akkar Governorate and the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. Drawing on forty-five interviews with Syrian refugees and ten interviews with aid workers, the study highlights the importance of mobile phones in reviving, maintaining and leveraging social capital for the purpose of securing livelihoods in a context of precarity and restricted movement. We find that mobile phones offer important means for reviving social networks in exile, managing supportive relationships that have been established in Lebanon and liaising with employers. As such, they constitute important tools for coping with a context shaped by legal exclusion, restricted movement, police harassment, decentralised aid provision and a geographical dispersal of support networks, even as they remain a costly investment with uncertain returns.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-07DOI: 10.1080/21632324.2020.1742986
C. Nguyen
ABSTRACT This article outlines a theoretical perspective attending to the embodiment of education-related migrants’ transnational mobilities as reflective of their embeddedness in the world. This argument is presented in two main parts.In the first part, it is argued that within a global discourse of increasing human capital for competitive advantage, skilled migration that follows international education – known as two-step migration – has been used by governments as a human capacity building strategy. In government-commissioned reports and studies, the dominant use of economic frameworks describes two-step migrants as rational choice makers. Such approaches produce the effect of disembodying transnational mobilities as homogeneous ‘brain flows’ across borders. However, migrants have their own pursuits and experience circumstances in relation to socio-economic, political, and cultural influences that affect their subjectivities in transnational mobilities. By building on extant research on transnationalism in the latter part of this article, this article acknowledges the embodiment of transnational mobilities through the relational aspects of migrants’ everyday lives, from forming decisions to migrate, to relocating to the host society and planning for the future. In this sense,the relationality of transnational mobilities can be theorised through skilled migrants’ engagement with the world across multiple spaces and temporalities.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-06DOI: 10.1080/21632324.2020.1742975
Tadelech Bubamo Welde, S. Emovwodo, M. Saud, Baiq Wardhani
ABSTRACT Diasporas are transnational actors that could be involved in playing a key role to amplify sustainable development in developing countries like Nigeria and Ethiopia. The present study was conducted to explore the potential role of the Nigerian and Ethiopian Diasporas in the process of fostering ongoing economic development in their countries of origin. The article is attempted to highlight: 1) the potential engagements of Nigerian and Ethiopian diasporas contribution to the economic progress and poverty reduction and the significant role of their remittances to accelerate economic growth, (2) the major initiatives taken by the Ethiopian government to attract and engage its diasporas, (3) the government’s policy reforms to attract diaspora and (4) the circumstances hampering diasporas potential involvement. The current study opted mixed methodology and data collected through secondary sources and questionnaire to evaluate Diasporas roles and their remittances’ impacts on Nigerian and Ethiopian economies. Moreover, the study concludes that, institutional and structural weakness of both countries and diaspora identity politics tended to play a great role in hindering the potential engagement of their diaspora to their countries’ development. The study suggests some policy recommendations for the Nigerian and Ethiopian government.
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