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Birds of Passage: Migrant Labor and Industrial Societies
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In this paper, the impact of migration on the place of origin and the dilemmas of current U.S. immigration policy are discussed. But the authors focus on the long-distance migration in the United States.Abstract:
1. Introduction 2. The jobs 3. The migrants 4. Particular characteristics of the migrant labour market 5. The impact of migration on the place of origin 6. The historical evolution of long-distance migration in the United States 7. The dilemmas of current U.S. immigration policy.read more
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The Age of Migration
Stephen Castles,Mark J. Miller +1 more
TL;DR: The third edition of the 3rd edition of as mentioned in this paper is the most comprehensive survey of international migration in the post-Cold-War era of globalization, focusing on the formation of ethnic minorities.
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Assimilation, Changes in Cohort Quality, and the Earnings of Immigrants
TL;DR: This article studied the earnings growth experienced by specific immigrant cohorts during the period 1970-80 and found that within-cohort growth is significantly smaller than the growth predicted by cross-section regressions for most immigrant groups.
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Family and personal networks in international migration: recent developments and new agendas.
TL;DR: An overview of research findings on the determinants and consequences of personal networks is presented and it calls for greater specification of the role of networks in migration research and for the inclusion of women in future research.
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What's Driving Mexico-U.S. Migration? A Theoretical, Empirical, and Policy Analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors link individual acts of migration to 41 theoretically defined individual-, household-, community-, and macroeconomic-level predictors, and find that Mexico-U.S. migration stems from three mutually reinforcing processes: social capital formation, human capital formation and market consolidation.
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Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
TL;DR: A list of abbreviations for the bus can be found in this paper, where the authors discuss the California political economy, crime, croplands, and capitalism, and what is to be done.