Migration and Demographic Change

Abstract

Academics have viewed migration from many different perspectives. This paper asks what is new about how migration impacts on population change and inversely how does population change produce new migration outcomes. Three features are singled out. First, the significance of structuring forces such as international recruitment agencies and social networks are identified as very important in shaping the impact of migration on host populations. Second, it is noted that population mobility challenges traditional patterns of care provision across the life course. Third, the changing significance of contextual factors (space, place, and household environments) has transformed the impact of migration on population change. The paper also explores how new datasets and new research methods can offer novel insights of the relation between population mobility and demographic change. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

The Impact of Ageing and the Speed of Ageing on the Economic Growth of Least Developed, Emerging and Developed Countries, 1990–2013

“…This result emphasizes that, for these groups, countries facing a fall in the working‐age group are those with declining growth performance. Our result is in accordance with the arguments of Schou (), UNCTAD/LDC (), Findlay and Wahba () that the increasing demand from developed countries for the LDC's labor force (i.e. emigration) negatively affects the participation of the working‐age group in LDC and thus undermines their economic growth.…”

Natural disasters and population mobility in Bangladesh

“…Both of these findings likely reflect the relative success of local adaptation strategies and disaster assistance programs following floods and the relative lack of these following crop failures (30,31,39,40). Flooding undoubtedly causes substantial short-term population displacement (33,34), but it appears that this translates into few long-term moves. Future research should investigate the use of other coping strategies, such as loans, following floods and crop failure to provide additional insight into why the latter are more disruptive.…”

“…During the study period, Bangladesh experienced two severe floods (in 1998 and 2004) and a series of other large-scale natural disasters (29). Flooding is known to create significant hardships for affected households (30)(31)(32)(33)(34) and to result in short-term population displacements (33)(34), but its consequences for long-term population relocation are controversial (35)(36)(37)(38) and have not been investigated by large-scale quantitative studies. The consequences of non-flood-related crop failure, which is primarily due to drought, are also severe but have received substantially less attention from both aid agencies and researchers (39,40).…”

New Mobilities Across the Life Course: a Framework for Analysing Demographically Linked Drivers of Migration

“…T he main objective of this paper is to offer a conceptual framework for researchers wishing to deepen the understanding of the longitudinal relationship between migration and demographic change (Findlay & Wahba, 2013). The paper takes the relationship between migration and the life course as its central concern (Bailey, 2009).…”