Title:	International Handbook of Migration and Population Distribution
Authors:	Michael J. White Dudley L. Poston, Jr. George T. & Gladys H. Abell
Keywords:	Population Distribution
Issue Date:	2016
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	Migration matters. In the twenty-first century, migration—as one of the three fundamental components of population change—arguably occupies a more consequential position than ever before. Many populations have travelled far down the path of the conventional demographic transition and so are characterized by low to moderate fertility and mortality. Thus, migration in many instances plays a larger role in population change than ever before. Processes of globalization and internal economic development have prompted the redistribution of populations, both within and across nations. Recent meetings of scientific societies devoted to the study of population show evidence of a substantial number of sessions devoted to population distribution (segregation, poverty and place, settlement patterns of immigrants, and availability of services) and population movement (authorized and unauthorized international migration, rural-urban migration, and socioeconomic development) along a wide array of specific topics. At the same time, advances in analytical methods and in data collection have enabled scholars to examine both populations in place (with improved geographic technology) and populations moving across places (with more sophisticated data collection formats), so as to give better answers to long-standing questions: Who lives where? Where do they move? How does it matter? Figure 1.1 presents just some of the major international migratory flows that have crisscrossed the world in the current period. Would that we could add to this a depiction of the major internal flows of migration, as well. Certainly the movement from rural to urban areas would emerge for many countries. Although in decades past, some researchers periodically bemoaned the lack of attention to migration, present circumstances suggest that population distribution and redistribution occupy—front and center—the attention of a broad range of scholars and policy makers. The contributions of this volume are designed to examine and report the state of knowledge with regard to migration and population distribution. The volume’s contributors are located in places as geographically broad as the subject matter itself. This collection brings together distinguished scholars from a variety of disciplines around the world to examine populations in place and population movement
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/54189
ISBN:	978-94-017-7282-2
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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