Circular migration

About: Circular migration is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 606 publications have been published within this topic receiving 12643 citations. The topic is also known as: repeat migration.

International migration, remittances and development: myths and facts

Abstract: The debate on international South-North labour migration tends to focus on the receiving end of migration. This bias obscures a proper understanding of the developmental causes and consequences of migration at the sending end. The reciprocal migration - development relationship is examined through the discussion of seven migration 'myths'. Because of its profound developmental roots, it is useless to think that migration can be halted or that aid and trade are short-cut 'solutions' to immigration. Migrant remittances contribute significantly to development and living conditions in sending countries. Nevertheless, the recent 'remittance euphoria' is not justified, because unattractive investment environments and restrictive immigration policies which interrupt circular migration patterns prevent the high development potential of migration from being fully realised. Although specific policies can enhance this potential through facilitating remittance transfers and investments, the key lies in encouraging circular migration. Instead of uselessly and harmfully trying to stop inevitable migration, immigration policies allowing for freer circulation can, besides increasing migration control, enhance the vital contribution of migrants to the development of their home countries.

Turning the tide? Why development will not stop migration.

Abstract: Restrictive immigration policies and the militarization of external border controls by the US and the EU have failed to significantly curb immigration from Latin America and Africa. Rather, they have led to greater reliance on increasingly risky and costly irregular migration and have paradoxically encouraged permanent settlement. A commonly presented ‘smart solution’ to curb immigration is to address the perceived root causes of migration through increasing aid or liberalizing trade with origin countries. Recently, policies to stimulate remittances and to promote temporary and circular migration have also been advocated as enhancing home country development, so that these forms of migration become a medicine against illegal and permanent migration. However, besides the limited scope and credibility of such policies, empirical and theoretical evidence strongly suggests that economic and human development increases people's capabilities and aspirations and therefore tends to coincide with an increase rather than a decrease in emigration, at least in the short to medium term. Under unfavourable conditions, trade, aid and remittances can be complements to, rather than substitutes for, migration also in the longer term. At the same time, demand for both skilled and unskilled migrant labour is likely to persist. Trade, aid, return migration and remittances are no short-cut ‘solutions’ to migration, and sustained immigration therefore seems likely.

The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move : Identities on the Island and in the United States

Abstract: Puerto Ricans maintain a vibrant identity that bridges two very different places - the island of Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland. Whether they live on the island, in the States, or divide time between the two, most imagine Puerto Rico as a separate nation and view themselves primarily as Puerto Rican. At the same time, Puerto Ricans have been U.S. citizens since 1917, and Puerto Rico has been a U.S. commonwealth since 1952. Jorge Duany uses previously untapped primary sources to bring new insights to questions of Puerto Rican identity, nationalism, and migration. Drawing a distinction between political and cultural nationalism, Duany argues that the Puerto Rican "nation" must be understood as a new kind of translocal entity with deep cultural continuities. He documents a strong sharing of culture between island and mainland, with diasporic communities tightly linked to island life by a steady circular migration. Duany explores the Puerto Rican sense of nationhood by looking at cultural representations produced by Puerto Ricans and considering how others - American anthropologists, photographers, and museum curators, for example - have represented the nation. His sources of information include ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, interviews, surveys, censuses, newspaper articles, personal documents, and literary texts.

Nurses on the move: a global overview.

Abstract: Objective To look at nurse migration flows in the light of national nursing workforce imbalances, examine factors that encourage or inhibit nurse mobility, and explore the potential benefits of circular migration.

Gender and migration

Abstract: Part 1 Gender and migration theory: gender awareness in migration theory - synthesizing actor and structure in southern Africa, Caroline Wright. Part 2 Households and reproduction: migration and the family - the female perspective, Hania Zlotnik gender, migration and urban development in Costa Rica - the case of Guanacaste, Sylvia Chant. Part 3 Gender and international labour migration: gender, international migration and social reproduction - implications for theory, policy, research and networking, Thanh-Dam Truong "in and out" of the labour market -immigrant women in Europe, Mirjana Morokvasic. Part 4 Circular migration: the circular migration of Puerto Rican women - towards a gendered explanation, Mark Ellis et al. Part 5 Migration as gendered work: the gendered social organization of migration as work, Janet W. Salaff. Part 6 Migration and gender relations: power, patriarchy and gender conflict in the Vietnamese immigrant community, Nazli Kibria sweatshop workers and domestic ideologies - Dominican women in New York's apparel industry, Patricia R. Pessar. Part 7 Social constructions of female migrants: "proper women" and city pleasures - gender, class and contested meanings in La Paz, Lesley Gill communal discourses, marriage and the politics of gendered social boundaries among South Asian immigrants in Tanzania, Richa Nagar negotiating public space -strategies and style of migrant female domestic workers in Singapore, Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Shirlena Huang. Part 8 Gender, migration and constructions of national identity: "the right sort of woman" - female emigrators and emigration to the British Empire, 1890-1910, Julia Bush. Part 9 Gender and transnationalism: "a chambered Nautilus" - the contradictory nature of Puerto Rican women's role in the social construction of a transnational community, Marixsa Alicea "I'm here, but I'm there" - the meanings of Latina transnational motherhood, Pierette Hondagneu-Soleto. Part 10 Gendered participation in immigrant politics: different paths - gender, immigration and political participation, Michael Jones-Correa. Part 11 Gender, migration and citizenship: negotiating citizenship - the case of foreign domestic workers in Canada, Daiva Stasiulis. Part 12 Accompanying spouses: home, work and community - skilled international migration and expatriate women in Singapore, Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Luoise-May Khoo family migration and the economic status of women in Malaysia, Arpita Chattopadhyay. Part 13 Women "left behind": missing men? the debate over rural poverty and women-headed households in southern Africa, Bridget O'Laughlin. Part 14 Gender and refugees: vocational training for women refugees in Africa, Eve Hall.