Graziano Battistella
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- August 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780199269006
- eISBN:
- 9780191601309
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199269009.003.0012
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Economic Systems
Return migration is a fixed component of temporary labour migration currently organized in Asia. However, as the experience of the Philippines indicates, policies for the reintegration of returning ...
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Return migration is a fixed component of temporary labour migration currently organized in Asia. However, as the experience of the Philippines indicates, policies for the reintegration of returning migrants are often difficult to implement and yield poor results. Return should be part of the planning before departure, and policies should focus on providing information, facilitating access to credit, maximizing the use of remittances, favouring local initiatives, and fostering cooperative enterprises. As for other aspects, policies for returning migrants should be part of a cooperative approach to migration between countries of origin and of destination.Less
Return migration is a fixed component of temporary labour migration currently organized in Asia. However, as the experience of the Philippines indicates, policies for the reintegration of returning migrants are often difficult to implement and yield poor results. Return should be part of the planning before departure, and policies should focus on providing information, facilitating access to credit, maximizing the use of remittances, favouring local initiatives, and fostering cooperative enterprises. As for other aspects, policies for returning migrants should be part of a cooperative approach to migration between countries of origin and of destination.
Frédéric Docquier and Hillel Rapoport
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199654826
- eISBN:
- 9780191742095
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654826.003.0012
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental, Financial Economics
This chapter reviews the channels through which skilled emigration can affect the source countries. Recent literature suggests that remittances, return migration, diaspora externalities, and network ...
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This chapter reviews the channels through which skilled emigration can affect the source countries. Recent literature suggests that remittances, return migration, diaspora externalities, and network effects favouring international transactions and technology diffusion, as well as brain gain channels, may compensate the sending countries for their loss of human capital. The chapter divides these channels into a ‘human capital’, ‘screening selection’, ‘productivity’, and ‘institutional’ channels, and analyse the links between brain drain and remittances. The development of a partial equilibrium model allows them to combine these various channels in an integrated setting. They quantify the costs and gains of the brain drain for developing countries and analyse how these balance out. In most cases, simulations suggest that at a macroeconomic level, the brain drain may generate short run and long run positive net gains for many developing countries, while adverse overall impacts are found only in a small number of countries exhibiting very high skilled emigration rates.Less
This chapter reviews the channels through which skilled emigration can affect the source countries. Recent literature suggests that remittances, return migration, diaspora externalities, and network effects favouring international transactions and technology diffusion, as well as brain gain channels, may compensate the sending countries for their loss of human capital. The chapter divides these channels into a ‘human capital’, ‘screening selection’, ‘productivity’, and ‘institutional’ channels, and analyse the links between brain drain and remittances. The development of a partial equilibrium model allows them to combine these various channels in an integrated setting. They quantify the costs and gains of the brain drain for developing countries and analyse how these balance out. In most cases, simulations suggest that at a macroeconomic level, the brain drain may generate short run and long run positive net gains for many developing countries, while adverse overall impacts are found only in a small number of countries exhibiting very high skilled emigration rates.
Kristian Thorn and Lauritz B. Holm‐Nielsen
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199532605
- eISBN:
- 9780191714627
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199532605.003.0006
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
High demand for researchers and scientists has led to an increase in skilled migration in recent years. The chapter focuses on improving our understanding of the push and pull factors affecting the ...
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High demand for researchers and scientists has led to an increase in skilled migration in recent years. The chapter focuses on improving our understanding of the push and pull factors affecting the migration decisions of researchers and scientists from developing countries and discusses policy options for maximizing the potential gains associated with international mobility of advanced human capital. Evidence suggests that a reasonable salary level should be guaranteed but that return decisions of researchers and scientists are primarily shaped by factors such as the quality of the research environment, professional reward structures, and access to state-of-the-art equipment.Less
High demand for researchers and scientists has led to an increase in skilled migration in recent years. The chapter focuses on improving our understanding of the push and pull factors affecting the migration decisions of researchers and scientists from developing countries and discusses policy options for maximizing the potential gains associated with international mobility of advanced human capital. Evidence suggests that a reasonable salary level should be guaranteed but that return decisions of researchers and scientists are primarily shaped by factors such as the quality of the research environment, professional reward structures, and access to state-of-the-art equipment.
Marjory Harper and Stephen Constantine
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199250936
- eISBN:
- 9780191594847
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199250936.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
During the nineteenth century, the proportion of UK migrants heading to empire destinations, especially to Canada, Australia and New Zealand, increased substantially and remained high. They included ...
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During the nineteenth century, the proportion of UK migrants heading to empire destinations, especially to Canada, Australia and New Zealand, increased substantially and remained high. They included so‐called ‘surplus women’ and ‘children in care’, shipped overseas to ease perceived social problems at home. However, empire migrants also included entrepreneurs and indentured labourers from south Asia, Africa and the Pacific (plus others from the Far East, outside the empire), who relocated in huge numbers with equally transformative effects in, for example, central and southern Africa, the Caribbean, Ceylon, Mauritius and Fiji. The UK at the core of empire was also the recipient of empire migrants, especially from the ‘New Commonwealth’ after 1945. Analysis of these several flows shows that migrants— whatever their origins— similarly responded to pressures at home, perceived opportunities overseas, and, in many cases, the recruiting efforts of governments and entrepreneurs; and they all eventually benefited from improved forms of transportation. All shared similar challenges in transferring and adapting their cultural identities, and the rewards of migration likewise varied among them, as an analysis of return migration reveals. But differences are also evident, since many non‐white migrants were recruited into the lower level of a dual labour market headed by a white elite, and immigration controls limited non‐white entry even of British subjects into the ‘white’ dominions, and later into the UK. Legacies remain, but political change and shifts in the global labour market had eroded by the 1970s the once intimate relationship between migration and empire.Less
During the nineteenth century, the proportion of UK migrants heading to empire destinations, especially to Canada, Australia and New Zealand, increased substantially and remained high. They included so‐called ‘surplus women’ and ‘children in care’, shipped overseas to ease perceived social problems at home. However, empire migrants also included entrepreneurs and indentured labourers from south Asia, Africa and the Pacific (plus others from the Far East, outside the empire), who relocated in huge numbers with equally transformative effects in, for example, central and southern Africa, the Caribbean, Ceylon, Mauritius and Fiji. The UK at the core of empire was also the recipient of empire migrants, especially from the ‘New Commonwealth’ after 1945. Analysis of these several flows shows that migrants— whatever their origins— similarly responded to pressures at home, perceived opportunities overseas, and, in many cases, the recruiting efforts of governments and entrepreneurs; and they all eventually benefited from improved forms of transportation. All shared similar challenges in transferring and adapting their cultural identities, and the rewards of migration likewise varied among them, as an analysis of return migration reveals. But differences are also evident, since many non‐white migrants were recruited into the lower level of a dual labour market headed by a white elite, and immigration controls limited non‐white entry even of British subjects into the ‘white’ dominions, and later into the UK. Legacies remain, but political change and shifts in the global labour market had eroded by the 1970s the once intimate relationship between migration and empire.
Nan M. Sussman
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789888028832
- eISBN:
- 9789882207370
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888028832.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
The global trend for immigrants to return home has unique relevance for Hong Kong. This work of cross-cultural psychology explores many personal stories of return migration. The author captures in ...
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The global trend for immigrants to return home has unique relevance for Hong Kong. This work of cross-cultural psychology explores many personal stories of return migration. The author captures in dozens of interviews the anxieties, anticipations, hardships, and flexible world perspectives of migrants and their families, as well as friends and co-workers. The book examines cultural identity shifts and population flows during a critical juncture in Hong Kong history between the Sino–British Joint Declaration in 1984 and the early years of Hong Kong's new status as a special administrative region after 1997. Nearly a million residents of Hong Kong migrated to North America, Europe, and Australia in the 1990s. These interviews and analyses help illustrate individual choices and identity profiles during this period of unusual cultural flexibility and behavioral adjustment.Less
The global trend for immigrants to return home has unique relevance for Hong Kong. This work of cross-cultural psychology explores many personal stories of return migration. The author captures in dozens of interviews the anxieties, anticipations, hardships, and flexible world perspectives of migrants and their families, as well as friends and co-workers. The book examines cultural identity shifts and population flows during a critical juncture in Hong Kong history between the Sino–British Joint Declaration in 1984 and the early years of Hong Kong's new status as a special administrative region after 1997. Nearly a million residents of Hong Kong migrated to North America, Europe, and Australia in the 1990s. These interviews and analyses help illustrate individual choices and identity profiles during this period of unusual cultural flexibility and behavioral adjustment.
Tito Boeri, Herbert Brücker, Frédéric Docquier, and Hillel Rapoport (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199654826
- eISBN:
- 9780191742095
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654826.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental, Financial Economics
This volume reviews the most recent research on brain drain and brain gain, producing new original results by the means of data sources specifically assembled for this study, and addressing several ...
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This volume reviews the most recent research on brain drain and brain gain, producing new original results by the means of data sources specifically assembled for this study, and addressing several key policy issues. Part I focuses on brain gain, that is, it takes the standpoint of the recipient country. The first section provides an overview of skill‐selective immigration policies in the main destination countries and of the major shifts in these policies which have been recently observed. It also documents the strong economic gains from immigration of highly skilled migrants. But what drives the decisions of highly skilled migrants as to where to locate? The econometric analyses performed by the authors indicate that it is mainly the labour market that is key to attracting talent, wage premia on education in particular. R&D spending also induces greater inflows of highly skilled migrants, while generous welfare benefits and strict employment protection end up attracting more unskilled workers. Part II is devoted to the consequences of brain drain, taking the point of view of the sending country. This second section provides for the first time a measure of the net global impact of the brain drain on sending countries. The results indicate that most developing countries experience a net gain from skilled emigration. Adverse overall impacts are found to be limited only to a subset of countries exhibiting very high skilled emigration rates. A number of policy recommendations are also offered to increase the benefits of brain drain.Less
This volume reviews the most recent research on brain drain and brain gain, producing new original results by the means of data sources specifically assembled for this study, and addressing several key policy issues. Part I focuses on brain gain, that is, it takes the standpoint of the recipient country. The first section provides an overview of skill‐selective immigration policies in the main destination countries and of the major shifts in these policies which have been recently observed. It also documents the strong economic gains from immigration of highly skilled migrants. But what drives the decisions of highly skilled migrants as to where to locate? The econometric analyses performed by the authors indicate that it is mainly the labour market that is key to attracting talent, wage premia on education in particular. R&D spending also induces greater inflows of highly skilled migrants, while generous welfare benefits and strict employment protection end up attracting more unskilled workers. Part II is devoted to the consequences of brain drain, taking the point of view of the sending country. This second section provides for the first time a measure of the net global impact of the brain drain on sending countries. The results indicate that most developing countries experience a net gain from skilled emigration. Adverse overall impacts are found to be limited only to a subset of countries exhibiting very high skilled emigration rates. A number of policy recommendations are also offered to increase the benefits of brain drain.
Iraida H. López
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813061030
- eISBN:
- 9780813051307
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813061030.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
The one-and-a-half generation is split among those who uphold the travel ban and those who have dared to go back. The return accomplished by members of this generation responds to the pull that ...
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The one-and-a-half generation is split among those who uphold the travel ban and those who have dared to go back. The return accomplished by members of this generation responds to the pull that “Cuba” exerts even among those who refrain from physically going back. In addition to addressing the theoretical underpinnings of the study and questions of terminology, this chapter also reviews canonical Cuban texts on return and the secondary literature on return migration.Less
The one-and-a-half generation is split among those who uphold the travel ban and those who have dared to go back. The return accomplished by members of this generation responds to the pull that “Cuba” exerts even among those who refrain from physically going back. In addition to addressing the theoretical underpinnings of the study and questions of terminology, this chapter also reviews canonical Cuban texts on return and the secondary literature on return migration.
Marjory Harper and Stephen Constantine
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199250936
- eISBN:
- 9780191594847
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199250936.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
This chapter opens by describing the changing volume of UK emigration, particularly though not only to empire destinations (and not only to the colonies of ‘white settlement’), as well as the ...
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This chapter opens by describing the changing volume of UK emigration, particularly though not only to empire destinations (and not only to the colonies of ‘white settlement’), as well as the movement of non‐white migrants around the empire and of others entering from outside. It then sets the agenda for the rest of the book. The relationship between migrant flows, using a dual labour market model, and immigration into the UK (from empire periphery to empire core) are to be addressed. Migrant experiences will be compared, and the roles of colonial and imperial governments and other agencies in affecting migrant flows explored. Chapters consider some of the economic, social, environmental, political and demographic consequences of empire migration (including the impact on indigenous peoples) and also the volume, causes and consequences of return migration.Less
This chapter opens by describing the changing volume of UK emigration, particularly though not only to empire destinations (and not only to the colonies of ‘white settlement’), as well as the movement of non‐white migrants around the empire and of others entering from outside. It then sets the agenda for the rest of the book. The relationship between migrant flows, using a dual labour market model, and immigration into the UK (from empire periphery to empire core) are to be addressed. Migrant experiences will be compared, and the roles of colonial and imperial governments and other agencies in affecting migrant flows explored. Chapters consider some of the economic, social, environmental, political and demographic consequences of empire migration (including the impact on indigenous peoples) and also the volume, causes and consequences of return migration.
John Percival
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781447301226
- eISBN:
- 9781447311010
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447301226.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gerontology and Ageing
The main objective of this edited volume is to explore the motivations, decision making processes, and consequences, when older people consider or accomplish return migration to their place of ...
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The main objective of this edited volume is to explore the motivations, decision making processes, and consequences, when older people consider or accomplish return migration to their place of origin; and also to raise the public policy profile of this increasingly important subject. The book examines in detail a range of themes affecting return migrations, including: family ties, obligations and their emotive strengths; comparative quality, and cost, of health and welfare provision in host and home countries; older age transitions and cultural affinity with homeland; and psychological adjustment, belonging and attachment to place. The wide ranging collection covers refugee, political, heritage, life-style, or family-oriented return. There is varying emphasis on permanent return, non-permanent returns, and visits to place of origin, which reflects variety in strategic approaches to return migrations and mobilities in later life. The book is unique in bringing this breadth and depth of exploration to bear on older people's return movements, providing a focused synthesis that allows a neglected subject to receive due attention in an era of ageing and more mobile societies. Chapters reflect a variety of quantitative, qualitative and ethnographic methods of enquiry, by researchers from different disciplines, including social gerontology, anthropology, migration and human geography perspectives. The book will be of use and interest to public service providers, government departments, agencies working with and for older people, policy developers, research bodies, and commercial organizations with interest and experience in travel and tourism.Less
The main objective of this edited volume is to explore the motivations, decision making processes, and consequences, when older people consider or accomplish return migration to their place of origin; and also to raise the public policy profile of this increasingly important subject. The book examines in detail a range of themes affecting return migrations, including: family ties, obligations and their emotive strengths; comparative quality, and cost, of health and welfare provision in host and home countries; older age transitions and cultural affinity with homeland; and psychological adjustment, belonging and attachment to place. The wide ranging collection covers refugee, political, heritage, life-style, or family-oriented return. There is varying emphasis on permanent return, non-permanent returns, and visits to place of origin, which reflects variety in strategic approaches to return migrations and mobilities in later life. The book is unique in bringing this breadth and depth of exploration to bear on older people's return movements, providing a focused synthesis that allows a neglected subject to receive due attention in an era of ageing and more mobile societies. Chapters reflect a variety of quantitative, qualitative and ethnographic methods of enquiry, by researchers from different disciplines, including social gerontology, anthropology, migration and human geography perspectives. The book will be of use and interest to public service providers, government departments, agencies working with and for older people, policy developers, research bodies, and commercial organizations with interest and experience in travel and tourism.
Anne White
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847428202
- eISBN:
- 9781447303008
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847428202.003.0010
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
This chapter considers interviewees' opinions about returns, both to live in Poland and for holidays which help shape thoughts about longer-term or permanent return. It provides some general thoughts ...
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This chapter considers interviewees' opinions about returns, both to live in Poland and for holidays which help shape thoughts about longer-term or permanent return. It provides some general thoughts about return migration and then looks more specifically at the scale and patterns of contemporary return migration to Poland. It discusses interviewees' perceptions about how many people were returning, and the permanence or otherwise of that return. It explores how migrants think about the duration of their stay, including the changeability of their plans. It looks at their perceptions of Poland and of their potential livelihoods in Poland as compared to their actual livelihoods in the UK.Less
This chapter considers interviewees' opinions about returns, both to live in Poland and for holidays which help shape thoughts about longer-term or permanent return. It provides some general thoughts about return migration and then looks more specifically at the scale and patterns of contemporary return migration to Poland. It discusses interviewees' perceptions about how many people were returning, and the permanence or otherwise of that return. It explores how migrants think about the duration of their stay, including the changeability of their plans. It looks at their perceptions of Poland and of their potential livelihoods in Poland as compared to their actual livelihoods in the UK.
Jaan Masso, Lucia Mýtna Kureková, Maryna Tverdostup, and Zuzana Žilincˇíková
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190864798
- eISBN:
- 9780190864828
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190864798.003.0016
- Subject:
- Social Work, Social Policy, Communities and Organizations
This chapter addresses patterns of return migration in Estonia and Slovakia. It investigates the selection of emigrants who decide to return home and analyzes their characteristics compared to ...
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This chapter addresses patterns of return migration in Estonia and Slovakia. It investigates the selection of emigrants who decide to return home and analyzes their characteristics compared to emigrants who remain abroad and to fellow nationals who did not emigrate, as well as the labor market status of young returnees after re-entering the domestic labor market. The comparative analysis of the two national Labor Force Survey samples suggests that among young returnees, level of education has no association with the decision to return home. An education–occupation mismatch affects the decision to return among young and highly educated Estonian migrants, whereas no such effect is found for young Slovak returnees. The analysis of post-return labor market status reveals that both Estonian and Slovak returnees are more likely to face short-term unemployment after re-entering the domestic labor market than are emigrants who remain abroad or people who stayed at home.Less
This chapter addresses patterns of return migration in Estonia and Slovakia. It investigates the selection of emigrants who decide to return home and analyzes their characteristics compared to emigrants who remain abroad and to fellow nationals who did not emigrate, as well as the labor market status of young returnees after re-entering the domestic labor market. The comparative analysis of the two national Labor Force Survey samples suggests that among young returnees, level of education has no association with the decision to return home. An education–occupation mismatch affects the decision to return among young and highly educated Estonian migrants, whereas no such effect is found for young Slovak returnees. The analysis of post-return labor market status reveals that both Estonian and Slovak returnees are more likely to face short-term unemployment after re-entering the domestic labor market than are emigrants who remain abroad or people who stayed at home.
Daniel Naujoks
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780198084983
- eISBN:
- 9780199082643
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198084983.003.0009
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
For the assessment of the effect of a diasporic membership status like Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) has on India’s development, this chapter explores what its consequences are on ...
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For the assessment of the effect of a diasporic membership status like Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) has on India’s development, this chapter explores what its consequences are on development-related behavior and interaction. It assesses the effects of OCI on the ability of overseas Indians and their decision to indulge in development-related activities, as well as the permissibility of such activities, the consequences of the four principal effects discussed in the previous chapters are broken down to concrete actions and transactions. Distinguishing six different groups of individuals that are affected by the principal effects, this chapter elaborates upon several concrete mechanisms concerning the effects of OCI on developmental activities with regard to remittances, investment, political advocacy, diasporic philanthropy, return and re-migration. It concludes with a preliminary exploration of the possibilities of incorporating these findings into a more general framework to assess the development effects of diasporic membership statuses that applies to other diasporic communities.Less
For the assessment of the effect of a diasporic membership status like Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) has on India’s development, this chapter explores what its consequences are on development-related behavior and interaction. It assesses the effects of OCI on the ability of overseas Indians and their decision to indulge in development-related activities, as well as the permissibility of such activities, the consequences of the four principal effects discussed in the previous chapters are broken down to concrete actions and transactions. Distinguishing six different groups of individuals that are affected by the principal effects, this chapter elaborates upon several concrete mechanisms concerning the effects of OCI on developmental activities with regard to remittances, investment, political advocacy, diasporic philanthropy, return and re-migration. It concludes with a preliminary exploration of the possibilities of incorporating these findings into a more general framework to assess the development effects of diasporic membership statuses that applies to other diasporic communities.
Iraida H. López
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813061030
- eISBN:
- 9780813051307
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813061030.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Chapter 1 provides the necessary historical background to migration and return. It offers a summary of postrevolutionary migration waves, concise information on the Operation Pedro Pan, the policies ...
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Chapter 1 provides the necessary historical background to migration and return. It offers a summary of postrevolutionary migration waves, concise information on the Operation Pedro Pan, the policies that have eased or hindered travel in Cuba and the United States, and the range of attitudes toward return in the Cuban-American community and elsewhere. Additionally, it explores reports on the initial trips to Cuba undertaken by the Antonio Maceo Brigade and Grupo Areíto in the late 1970s as well as others more individually focused that followed.Less
Chapter 1 provides the necessary historical background to migration and return. It offers a summary of postrevolutionary migration waves, concise information on the Operation Pedro Pan, the policies that have eased or hindered travel in Cuba and the United States, and the range of attitudes toward return in the Cuban-American community and elsewhere. Additionally, it explores reports on the initial trips to Cuba undertaken by the Antonio Maceo Brigade and Grupo Areíto in the late 1970s as well as others more individually focused that followed.
Daniel Naujoks
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780198084983
- eISBN:
- 9780199082643
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198084983.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
This chapter contains a conceptual framework of migration and development. It elaborates upon the meanings, concepts, and metrics of development, India’s development needs, as well as the diasporic ...
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This chapter contains a conceptual framework of migration and development. It elaborates upon the meanings, concepts, and metrics of development, India’s development needs, as well as the diasporic activities that may affect developmental categories in India. It reflects on the major stages in the migration cycle, emigration, interactions between the migrants and the homeland during the migrants’ stay abroad—so-called diaspora options—return migration, and lastly, re-migration. It also considers and examines a wide range of direct, intermediary, and indirect effects of the Indian diaspora on the social and economic development of India—investment, remittances, trade, philanthropy and social change, the transmission of knowledge and skills, national branding, and political advocacy. The chapter discerns migration-related contributions to major drivers of economic and human development, such as investment, consumption, trade, as well as innovation and entrepreneurship, on the one hand, and disposable income, institutions and facilities and social patterns, on the other.Less
This chapter contains a conceptual framework of migration and development. It elaborates upon the meanings, concepts, and metrics of development, India’s development needs, as well as the diasporic activities that may affect developmental categories in India. It reflects on the major stages in the migration cycle, emigration, interactions between the migrants and the homeland during the migrants’ stay abroad—so-called diaspora options—return migration, and lastly, re-migration. It also considers and examines a wide range of direct, intermediary, and indirect effects of the Indian diaspora on the social and economic development of India—investment, remittances, trade, philanthropy and social change, the transmission of knowledge and skills, national branding, and political advocacy. The chapter discerns migration-related contributions to major drivers of economic and human development, such as investment, consumption, trade, as well as innovation and entrepreneurship, on the one hand, and disposable income, institutions and facilities and social patterns, on the other.
John Percival
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781447301226
- eISBN:
- 9781447311010
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447301226.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gerontology and Ageing
This introductory chapter presents the aims, rationale, context, scope and layout of the book, with a brief synopsis of each author's chapter. The chapter begins by reviewing current knowledge as a ...
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This introductory chapter presents the aims, rationale, context, scope and layout of the book, with a brief synopsis of each author's chapter. The chapter begins by reviewing current knowledge as a basis for arguing that there are two important and related reasons for a consolidated focus on the subject of return migration in later life: a need for more detailed research on return migration; and a general lack of attention to migration in later life. The chapter then introduces relevant themes that receive attention throughout the book, including: migration flows and patterns; identity and place attachment; life course perspectives; family ties and obligations; and health and resource planning. Further chapters in the book are briefly introduced in respect of descriptive groupings: propensities and determinants; motivations and strategies; priorities and evaluations; and personal and cultural consequences of return.Less
This introductory chapter presents the aims, rationale, context, scope and layout of the book, with a brief synopsis of each author's chapter. The chapter begins by reviewing current knowledge as a basis for arguing that there are two important and related reasons for a consolidated focus on the subject of return migration in later life: a need for more detailed research on return migration; and a general lack of attention to migration in later life. The chapter then introduces relevant themes that receive attention throughout the book, including: migration flows and patterns; identity and place attachment; life course perspectives; family ties and obligations; and health and resource planning. Further chapters in the book are briefly introduced in respect of descriptive groupings: propensities and determinants; motivations and strategies; priorities and evaluations; and personal and cultural consequences of return.
Debra Lattanzi Shutika
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520269583
- eISBN:
- 9780520950238
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520269583.003.0006
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter investigates the spiritual lives of Textitlanecos within the context of return migration. The return of hijos ausentes to the pueblo produces tension and a local challenge to the ...
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This chapter investigates the spiritual lives of Textitlanecos within the context of return migration. The return of hijos ausentes to the pueblo produces tension and a local challenge to the pueblo's elite citizens. This return is examined as a journey in which Textitlanecos come together through their shared devotion to Esquipulitas, the town's patron. By participating in the annual pilgrimage in honor of Esquipulitas, the pueblo is able to reunite as a single community and find a place for those who return during the fiesta season. Textitlán shows its resilience in its ability to reunite symbolically through the residents' spiritual connection to Esquipulitas. The feria is a distinguishing feature of Mexican social life. A perceived dedication to the image of Esquipulitas can emplace newcomers as well as ausentes.Less
This chapter investigates the spiritual lives of Textitlanecos within the context of return migration. The return of hijos ausentes to the pueblo produces tension and a local challenge to the pueblo's elite citizens. This return is examined as a journey in which Textitlanecos come together through their shared devotion to Esquipulitas, the town's patron. By participating in the annual pilgrimage in honor of Esquipulitas, the pueblo is able to reunite as a single community and find a place for those who return during the fiesta season. Textitlán shows its resilience in its ability to reunite symbolically through the residents' spiritual connection to Esquipulitas. The feria is a distinguishing feature of Mexican social life. A perceived dedication to the image of Esquipulitas can emplace newcomers as well as ausentes.
Katherine E. Southwood
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199644346
- eISBN:
- 9780191739316
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199644346.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies, Judaism
This chapter draws together and reflects on the book’s central arguments, and provides a number of final thoughts about the material’s relevance.
This chapter draws together and reflects on the book’s central arguments, and provides a number of final thoughts about the material’s relevance.
Nan M. Sussman
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789888028832
- eISBN:
- 9789882207370
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888028832.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter examines the origins of the Hong Kong identity, starting with the indigenous inhabitants from southern China, and continuing through the nineteenth-century imposition of British ...
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This chapter examines the origins of the Hong Kong identity, starting with the indigenous inhabitants from southern China, and continuing through the nineteenth-century imposition of British sovereignty, modern identity, and finally the late twentieth-century handover to China. It notes that residents of Hong Kong have developed complex identities and learned how to negotiate these identities within the Hong Kong regional and global context. The large-scale movement of people from and back to Hong Kong allows us not only to understand the psychological consequences of Hong Kong return migration but also to illuminate an emerging worldwide phenomenon.Less
This chapter examines the origins of the Hong Kong identity, starting with the indigenous inhabitants from southern China, and continuing through the nineteenth-century imposition of British sovereignty, modern identity, and finally the late twentieth-century handover to China. It notes that residents of Hong Kong have developed complex identities and learned how to negotiate these identities within the Hong Kong regional and global context. The large-scale movement of people from and back to Hong Kong allows us not only to understand the psychological consequences of Hong Kong return migration but also to illuminate an emerging worldwide phenomenon.
M. Cristina Alcalde
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780252041846
- eISBN:
- 9780252050510
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252041846.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
This chapter draws the reader into everyday transnational experiences and the role of exclusion in Peruvian racial-class-gender hierarchies. It introduces the main themes and concepts of the book, ...
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This chapter draws the reader into everyday transnational experiences and the role of exclusion in Peruvian racial-class-gender hierarchies. It introduces the main themes and concepts of the book, its methodological approaches, and research locations: Peru, the United States, Canada, and Germany. It also presents the main topical and theoretical concepts and trajectories within the book: home and belonging, exclusion, return, intersectionality, exclusionary cosmopolitanism, and transnational lives.Less
This chapter draws the reader into everyday transnational experiences and the role of exclusion in Peruvian racial-class-gender hierarchies. It introduces the main themes and concepts of the book, its methodological approaches, and research locations: Peru, the United States, Canada, and Germany. It also presents the main topical and theoretical concepts and trajectories within the book: home and belonging, exclusion, return, intersectionality, exclusionary cosmopolitanism, and transnational lives.
Thanos Maroukis and Eda Gemi
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199674510
- eISBN:
- 9780191752414
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199674510.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Albanians have been moving back and forth between Greece and their home country throughout the last two decades. Doing so, often, was part of different migration plans. Nowadays, in the context of ...
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Albanians have been moving back and forth between Greece and their home country throughout the last two decades. Doing so, often, was part of different migration plans. Nowadays, in the context of the economic crisis and the different crossroads that these two countries stand before the EU, the options of return and circular migration become all the more pertinent in the agenda of the Albanian migrant household. This paper brings up the diversity of the circular patterns of mobility of the Albanian migrants, and discusses the scope of spontaneous vs state-managed forms of circularity with a view to understanding the prospects of this circularity for the parties involved (the migrant, the employer, the host country and the country of origin).Less
Albanians have been moving back and forth between Greece and their home country throughout the last two decades. Doing so, often, was part of different migration plans. Nowadays, in the context of the economic crisis and the different crossroads that these two countries stand before the EU, the options of return and circular migration become all the more pertinent in the agenda of the Albanian migrant household. This paper brings up the diversity of the circular patterns of mobility of the Albanian migrants, and discusses the scope of spontaneous vs state-managed forms of circularity with a view to understanding the prospects of this circularity for the parties involved (the migrant, the employer, the host country and the country of origin).
