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Hugo, Graeme
"The Demographic
Underpinnings of Current
and Future International
Migration in Asia," Vol.
7 (1), p. 1-25, 1998.
There has been an
unprecedented increase
in international
population movement in
the Asia-Pacific region
in the last decade. The
causes of this are
complex and associated
with the rapid economic
and social change in the
region, the forces of
globalization,
improvements in
transport and
communication and
proliferation of
migration networks.
However, the present
paper suggests that one
element which needs to
be considered in
explaining contemporary
international migration
but especially in
anticipating trends over
the next decade are the
differential patterns of
growth of population
within the region. While
population growth
overall has slowed, the
work force age groups
will continue to grow
rapidly in Asia over the
next decade or so and
the contrasts between
individual countries
will increase. The
proportion in the peak
mobility age groups will
thus continue to grow
rapidly in particular
countries and will be
one of the elements
contributing to
increased levels of
international migration
within and out of the
region.
Luis, P.K. and Qiming
Liu
"Urban
Residentship and Return
Migration to Shanghai in
the Aftermath of the
Cultural Revolution,"
Vol. 7 (1), p. 27-42,
1998
Young people were sent
to the countryside
during the Cultural
Revolution and were
later allowed to return
home in the 1970s. This
paper examines the
return migration of
Chinese youth from the
countryside based on
officially sanctioned
reasons and grounds. The
most often used reasons
or grounds were in fact
claims to urban
residentship arising
from connections to the
city by previous
residence, by birth and
by family. Claimants
negotitated with the
state in a cultural
language which
rationalizes the claimed
needs in terms of
traditional social
codes. The study reveals
that the passive and
submissive image the
Chinese civil society
outwardly present is
deceptive. Their claims,
however, still fall
short of modern social
citizenship.
Mullan, Brendan P.,
Chun-Hao Li , Rita S.
Gallin and Bernard
Gallin
"Family and Internal
Migration in Taiwan,"
Vol. 7 (1), p. 43-66,
1998
In this paper we examine
internal migration in
Taiwan in the 1960s when
rural economic
conditions were
volatile, the shift from
agriculture to non-farm
employment was gaining
momentum, and the
government's policy of
industrialization
through export was
adopted. Migration is
seen as one component of
households'
survival/adaptation
strategy and
accessibility to land,
participation in local
wage labor markets, and
access to migrants'
social networks are the
mechanisms through which
households determine and
deploy their migration
strategies. Our
empirical analyzes are
consistent with our a
priori theoretical
expectations that
household access to
land, participation in
the local wage labor
force, and access to
migrants' social
networks directly
influenced how families
in Taiwan deployed
migration as a household
survival strategy.
Nagasaka,
Itaru
"Kinship
Networks and Child
Fostering in Labor
Migration from Ilocos,
Philippines to Italy,"
Vol. 7 (1), p. 67-92,
1998
This paper is an attempt
to analyze the process
of contemporary overseas
labor migration from a
village in the Ilocos
region in the
Philippines to Italy. As
such, it will seek to
outline the basic
characteristics of the
process of migration and
examine them in relation
to the local social
structure. It will
demonstrate how the
Ilocanos responded to
new opportunities of
migration by
manipulating existing
social relations.
Particular attention
will be given to the
process of constructing
kinship networks among
the migrants and the
practice of fosterage in
the homeland community,
both of which are
considered as adaptive
processes to the new
migration opportunity.
Frey, William H.,
Kao-Lee Liaw, Yasuko
Hayase
"South-North
Immigrants' Settlement
and Opportunity
Structures in the U.S.,"
Vol. 7 (1), p. 93-125,
1998
The increased migration
to the U.S. from
developing countries in
Latin America and Asia
has aroused concerns
that new immigrants will
impose new costs on U.S.
citizens and the
government. Less concern
has been given to how
current policy is
affecting the social
well being of immigrants
them-selves. This
article makes the case
that the new
immigration, motivated
by kinship ties and
family reunification
provisions of U.S.
immigration law leads to
a clustering of new
immigrants into areas
that are no longer
attracting large numbers
of native born
Americans. It is argued
that the concentration
of these groups into
"high immigration
regions" will limit
their access to
employment and education
opportunities that would
facilitate their spatial
assimilation and upward
mobility. |
