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International Migration
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The SAGE Handbook of
International Migration
Edited by
Christine Inglis
with
Wei Li
and
Binod Khadria
SAGE Publications Ltd Editorial arrangement © Christine Inglis, Wei Li and Binod Khadria, 2020
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Chapter 11 © Peter Scholten, Schultjens, 2020
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Chapter 12 © Wei Li, 2020 Laurence Lessard-Phillips, 2020
Chapter 13 © Dirk Hoerder, Chapter 32 © Sue Wright and
2020 Claudia Viggiano, 2020
Chapter 14 © Phillip Martin, 2020 Chapter 33 © David Kaplan, 2020
Chapter 15 © Eleonore Kofman, Chapter 34 © Tuomas
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Chapter 16 © Aderanti Adepoju, Chapter 35 © Anna
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Chapter 17 © Mohammed Chapter 36 © John Solomos,
Charef, 2020 2020
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2020 2020
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Niyomsilpa, 2020 Richard P. C. Brown, 2020
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Contents
List of Figures ix
List of Tables xi
Notes on the Editors and Contributors xiii
1 Introduction: Understanding Migration 1
Christine Inglis, Wei Li and Binod Khadria
PART I DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON MIGRATION 17
2 Part I Introduction: Disciplinary Perspectives on International Migration 19
Christine Inglis
3 Demography 23
Mary M. Kritz
4 Development Studies and Migration 42
Habibul Haque Khondker
5 Economics and Migration 54
Gudrun Biffl
6 Education, Citizenship, and International Migration 70
James A. Banks
7 Environmental Studies and Migration 88
Usha Ziegelmayer, Johannes Herbeck and Felicitas Hillmann
8 Geography and Migration 108
Emily Skop
9 History 124
Dirk Hoerder
10 Migration, Linguistics and Sociolinguistics 142
Sue Wright
11 Migration and the Policy Sciences 159
Peter Scholten
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PART II HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY FLOWS OF MIGRANTS 175
12 Part II Introduction: International Migration Flows 177
Wei Li
13 Historical Patterns of Migration Prior to the Mid-20th Century 182
Dirk Hoerder
14 Rethinking Global Migration Flows 200
Philip Martin
15 Gender and the Feminisation of Migration 216
Eleonore Kofman
16 Regional and Intercontinental Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa 232
Aderanti Adepoju
17 Middle East and North Africa (MENA) 247
Mohammed Charef
18 South Asian Migration 262
Binod Khadria
19 International Migration Trends and Policies in Southeast Asia 276
Sakkarin Niyomsilpa
20 International Migration in East Asia 293
Huiyao Wang, Lu Miao, Jingmin Yang, and Yichen Jiang
21 Australasia and the Pacific Islands 311
Richard Bedford
22 Migrations in South America 326
Marcela Cerrutti and Emilio A. Parrado
23 Contemporary Migration Patterns in North and Central America 342
Claudia Masferrer, Silvia E. Giorguli-Saucedo and
Víctor M. García-Guerrero
24 European Migration Transition in the Context of Post-Enlargement
Migration from and into Central and Eastern Europe 358
Agata Górny and Paweł Kaczmarczyk
25 International Migration Trends and Policies in Russia and Eurasia 376
Sergey V. Ryazantsev
Contents vii
PART III THEORY, POLICY AND THE FACTORS AFFECTING
INCORPORATION 393
26 Part III Introduction: Theory, Policy and the Factors Affecting
Incorporation 395
Christine Inglis
27 Assimilation 400
Richard Alba and Victor Nee
28 Multiculturalism and Immigration 418
Peter Kivisto
29 Transnationalism 433
Derya Özkul
30 Migrant Entrepreneurship and Transnational Links 450
Jan Rath, Giacomo Solano and Veronique Schutjens
31 Inequality and the Structure of Educational Opportunity and Institutions 466
Anthony Heath and Laurence Lessard-Phillips
32 Language and Incorporation 481
Sue Wright and Claudia Viggiano
33 Spatial Concentration and Ghettos 496
David Kaplan
34 The Role of Religion in Migrant Incorporation 512
Tuomas Martikainen
35 Citizenship 523
Anna Tsalapatanis
36 Racism and the Age of Super-Diversity 538
John Solomos
PART IV NATIONAL AND GLOBAL POLICY CHALLENGES
IN MIGRATION 553
37 Part IV Introduction: National and Global Policy Challenges in Migration 555
Binod Khadria
38 Remittances and Migrants: Altruism, Insurance, Investment and Development 558
John Connell and Richard P. C. Brown
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39 Migration and State Concerns about the Emigration and Welfare
of their Citizens 575
Jean-Michel Lafleur
40 Trends in International, National and Local Policies on Migrant
Entry and Integration 592
Howard Duncan
41 Refugees and Asylum Seekers 608
Kathleen Newland and Susan Fratzke
42 Migration and the State’s Focus on Human Trafficking as a Security Issue 624
Heli Askola
Index 639
List of Figures
3.1 Age and sex pyramids of foreign-born populations in Jordan, the
United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Mexicans and Philippines in the USA 29
3.2 Net migration trends in selected top senders, 1950–2015 32
3.3 Five-year net migration rates per 1,000, c. 1850–2015 38
6.1 Cultural, national, regional, and global identifications 74
7.1 Terminologies over time 95
11.1 Schematic summary of the four theoretical perspectives on policymaking
within policy sciences 161
15.1 Female migrants as percentage of all international migrants, by
year and region 218
19.1 Southeast Asia and international migration 278
19.2 Top migration destinations in East Asia in 2000 and 2010 278
19.3 Southeast Asian migrants in the USA, 2014 282
19.4 Stock of migrants from Southeast Asia to Australia, 2013 283
20.1 Top 20 destination countries for Mainland Chinese migrants, 2017 294
20.2 Top 20 destination countries for Japanese migrants, 2017 296
20.3 Top 20 destination countries for South Korean migrants, 2017 297
20.4 Top 10 countries with the lowest proportion of foreign-born population, 2017 298
20.5 Top source countries of China’s foreign population, 2017 (people) 299
20.6 Top source countries of Japan’s foreign population, 2017 (people) 299
20.7 Top source countries of South Korea’s foreign population, 2017 (people) 300
20.8 Top 20 remittance-sending countries, 2017 (US$100,000,000) 302
23.1 Foreign-born population stocks in the United States by selected groups,
1900–2016 (millions) 348
24.1 Net immigration flows in selected western/southern
and central and eastern European countries, 1985–2013 362
24.2 (Long-term) net immigration rates in selected western/southern
(left panel) and central and eastern (right panel) European countries,
2006–2017 363
24.3 GDP per capita (in Euros, current prices) in EU-15 and the main
European countries, 2000, 2004, 2010, 2014 and 2018 364
24.4 Shares of foreign citizens in the population of Czechia, Hungary,
Slovakia, Slovenia, 2004, 2007, 2013 and 2017 367
24.5 Stock of Ukrainian migrants in selected European countries
(top 10 countries), 2017 370
25.1 Total number of permits, FMS-issued, to migrant workers in the
Russian Federation, 1994–2017 (thousands) 382
