Migration: Economic Change, Social Challenge
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| Anteprima |
The
changing economic reality of the last decades has prompted large
movements of people across and within national borders, which, in turn,
have given rise to new opportunities and challenges. This volume
addresses a number of key aspects of these developments, by bringing
together a unique collection of chapters, written by leading scholars
from three different disciplines: economics, sociology, and political
science.
The first part of the book - Economic Change - starts with
two case studies: The mass migration from the former Soviet Union to
Israel in the early 1990s, and the mass migration from rural to urban
areas in China that started in the mid 1990s. The final chapter of the
first part provides a thorough introduction and overview into
methodologies that can help to address numerous issues faced by
researchers working with migration data, of the type underlying the
analysis in the first two chapters.
The second part of the book -
Social Challenge - discusses how societies are shaped by immigration.
It investigates the pitfalls of policies that do not take account of the
implications for decisions of individual migrants; explores the
important aspect of family re-unification and discusses whether society
should follow a path towards a multicultural society or a society that
forces newcomers to adopt existing cultures. Finally, this volume
ponders whether the diversity created through migration impacts
negatively on the societal structure of the receiving countries.
These
chapters together, written by some of the foremost experts in the
areas, provide intriguing insights into the complexity of migratory
phenomena and the challenges to policy and society at large.
