Overview
- The first handbook to bring together both internal and international migration in the same publication
- Includes a major focus on regional aspects of internal migration, international migration, immigration
- Contributions by leading scholars from around the world
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International Handbooks of Population (IHOP, volume 6)
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Perspectives on Theory for Internal and International Migration
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Data and Methods for Migration Study
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About this book
This Handbook offers a comprehensive collection of essays that cover essential features of geographical mobility, from internal migration, to international migration, to urbanization, to the adaptation of migrants in their destinations. Part I of the collection introduces the range of theoretical perspectives offered by several social science disciplines, while also examining the crucial relationship between internal and international migration. Part II takes up methods, ranging from how migration data are best collected to contemporary techniques for analyzing such data. Part III of the handbook contains summaries of present trends across all world regions. Part IV rounds out the volume with several contributions assessing pressing issues in contemporary policy areas. The volume’s editor Michael J. White has spent a career studying the pattern and process of internal and international migration, urbanization and population distribution in a wide variety of settings, from developing societies to advanced economies. In this Handbook he brings together contributors from all parts of the world, gathering in this one volume both geographical and substantive expertise of the first rank. The Handbook will be a key reference source for established scholars, as well as an invaluable high-level introduction to the most relevant topics in the field for emerging scholars.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Michael J White is the Robert E. Turner Distinguished Professor of Population Studies and Professor of Sociology at Brown University, where he is also an affiliate and past director of the Population Studies and Training Center. White is also Honorary Research Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and he has served the Population Association of America and the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population in a variety of capacities. White’s own research on migration and population distribution covers a wide array of topics, from urban residential segregation, to rural-urban migration in developing societies, to contemporary international migration and immigrant assimilation. His studies span most world regions and both developing and developed settings. Other recent books include Achieving Anew: How New Immigrants Doin American Schools, Jobs, and Neighborhoods (with J Glick; Russell Sage, 2009) and The Dynamics of Migration, Health and Livelihoods (co-edited with M Collinson, K Adazu, and S Findley; Ashgate, 2009). White is currently investigating the role that interregional migration plays in influencing health outcomes in South Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Handbook of Migration and Population Distribution
Editors: Michael J. White
Series Title: International Handbooks of Population
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7282-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7281-5Published: 21 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1325-0Published: 30 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-7282-2Published: 11 December 2015
Series ISSN: 1877-9204
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1877
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 636
Number of Illustrations: 48 b/w illustrations, 50 illustrations in colour
Topics: Migration, Human Geography, Demography