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International migration in the Far East is in part the normal movement from areas where land is scarce in relation to population to more empty areas where the factors complementary to labour are more abundant. There are, however, special complications in the pattern of migration in the Far East which result partly from the impact of an external administration and economic pattern, and partly from the wide differences in culture and technical skill of the peoples inhabiting this area.
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Cf. H. W. Singer, ‘The Mechanics of Economic Development’, Indian Economic Review, August 1952.
Cf. B. Lasker, Asia on the Move, New York, 1945, chs. 2, 7, 8.
Cf. Lennox A. Mills, British Rule in Eastern Asia, Oxford, 1942, pp. 219–29.
Cf. I. Taeuber, ‘Migration and the Population Potential of Monsoon Asia’ in Postwar Problems of Migration. Milbank Memorial Fund, New York, 1942
Cf., on this and other migration movements, map and discussion in E. H. G. Dobby, Southeast Asia, London, 1950, pp. 390–94.
This has been discussed briefly in T. H. Silcock, The Economy of Malaya, Singapore, 1954.
Cf. V. W. W. Purcell, The Chinese in South-east Asia, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Oxford, 1951.
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Cf. J. Russell Andrus, ‘Three Economic Systems Clash in Burma’, Review of Economic Studies, 1935–6; Burmese Economic Life, Stanford, California, 1947.
Cf. R. Nathan and Associates, A Plan of Economic Development for Korea, United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency, 1954.
Cf. discussion on the Refugee Problem in C. A. Vakil, Economic Consequences of Divided India, Bombay, 1950, chs. 2 and 3.
This is briefly discussed by the author and Ungku A. Aziz in W. L. Holland, Asian Nationalism and the West, Institute of Pacific Relations, 1952, p. 327.
Cf. Sir Ivor Jennings, The Economy of Ceylon, Oxford, 1951, ch. 4.
Cf. H. de Meel, ‘Demographic Dilemma in Indonesia’, Pacific Affairs, 1951.
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Silcock, T.H. (1958). Migration Problems of the Far East. In: Thomas, B. (eds) Economics of International Migration. International Economic Association Conference Volumes. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08443-2_18
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