The Assimilation of Migrant Households in the Urban Areas of A Developing Country

Acharya, Chakra Pani; Leon-Gonzalez, Roberto

doi:10.1353/jda.2015.0040

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“…The acceleration of consumption with income for migrant households with longer durations of migration implies that given time, migrant households' consumption may catch up with the local urban level. This result echoes the findings based on household data in Nepal by Acharya and Leon-Gonzalez (2015). The square of age continues to have a negative coefficient in almost all regressions, and the old dependency ratio remains insignificant, further confirming that the factors outlined by the life cycle theory do not strongly affect household consumption, except for the young dependency ratio.…”

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“…Second, this paper considers how well migrants are integrated in tastes and values in local urban areas as a factor in determining their consumption levels, deriving from the literature on the effect of cultural values on consumption, for example, Kim et al (2002). In the literature on migrant household consumption, Acharya and Leon-Gonzalez (2015) find that consumption by migrant households in Nepal gradually increases and converges to the level of local residents. Danzer et al (2014) discover that recent migrant workers may resort to conspicuous consumption in an effort to gain higher socioeconomic status despite having similar income levels.…”

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Why do migrant households consume so little?

Chen

2018

China Economic Review

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Why do migrant households consume so little?

Chen

2018

China Economic Review

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“…Before the earthquake, many of the regions that were most affected were already economically depressed and witnessing massive out-migration of youth to Nepal's cities and abroad (Hatlebakk 2015). For the last several decades, a trend of rural out-migration amongst adolescents and young adults has resulted in a steady flow of people and money to and from the countryside (Acharya and Leon-Gonzalez 2015;Maharjan et al 2013;Mishra 2011).…”

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Migration as a Disaster Recovery Strategy in Post-Earthquake Nepal: Challenges and Vulnerabilities for Young Women Migrants

Grossman–Thompson

2016

International Journal of Mass Emergencies & Disasters

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Foreign labor migration has been an historically common livelihood strategy for young Nepali men. Increasingly, young women have migrated abroad for work as well in spite of a number of gender discriminatory migration laws that limit women's access to legal labor migration channels. To what extent out-migration will be employed by women as a livelihood strategy in the post-earthquake context remains to be seen. This paper focuses specifically on young women's migration decision-making in the immediate aftermath of the 2015 April/May earthquakes. Using survey data collected from two districts in July 2015 – one severely earthquake-affected district and one less-affected district – the research is guided by a vulnerabilities approach to disasters. This paper considers how the April/May earthquakes have affected young women migrants’ decision-making processes around future migration as a livelihood strategy and how the earthquake may have a synergistic affect with existing gender discriminatory migration and citizenship laws and local systems of social stratification to exacerbate and multiply women labor migrants’ vulnerabilities.

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“…Integration is an outcome of a process. An important determinant is intercultural contact which can be viewed as a measure of migrants' integration effort (Achakra and Leon-Gonzalez, 2015;Constant and Massey, 2002;Stinner and Van Loon, 2010;Danzer and Ulku, 2008). It involves interaction within public and private spheres and these activities foster personal and collective identities (Couton and Gaudet, 2008;Stark and Jakubek, 2013).…”

Section: Introduction and Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%