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Geography of Migration: An Introduction

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The Economic Geography of Cross-Border Migration

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We live in the “age of migration.” Migration can take different forms: local, domestic, or cross-border (regional or international). In recent years, a considerable amount of attention has been directed to the socio-economic aspects of cross-border (interregional and international) migration (see, e.g., Stough et al. in Modelling aging and migration effects on spatial labor markets. Springer, Berlin, 2018). In the Handbook on the “Economics of International Migration” (Chiswick and Miller in Handbook on the economics of international migration. North-Holland Publishing, Amsterdam, 2015), we find many interesting economic contributions on migration phenomena, mainly from a macro- or meso-economic angle. It should be recognized, however, that migration is not only an economic or demographic phenomenon, but it also has clear geographical dimensions in terms of socio-economic drivers of, or impacts on, places of origin or destination.

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    Karima Kourtit & Peter Nijkamp

  2. McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

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  3. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

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Kourtit, K., Newbold, B., Nijkamp, P., Partridge, M., Hean, O. (2021). Geography of Migration: An Introduction. In: Kourtit, K., Newbold, B., Nijkamp, P., Partridge, M. (eds) The Economic Geography of Cross-Border Migration. Footprints of Regional Science(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48291-6_1

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