International Handbook of Migration and Population Distribution

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction: Contemporary Insights on Migration and Population Distribution

   • Michael J. White

   Pages 1-8

3. Perspectives on Theory for Internal and International Migration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Perspectives on Migration Theory: Geography

      • Richard Wright, Mark Ellis

      Pages 11-30

   3. Perspectives on Migration Theory – Economics

      • Michael J. Greenwood

      Pages 31-40

   4. Perspectives on Migration Theory—Anthropology

      • Caroline B. Brettell

      Pages 41-67

   5. Perspectives on Migration Theory – Sociology and Political Science

      • Michael J. White, Colin Johnson

      Pages 69-89

   6. Conceptualizing Migration: From Internal/International to Kinds of Membership

      • Susan K. Brown, Frank D. Bean

      Pages 91-106

4. Data and Methods for Migration Study

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107

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   2. Concepts, Definitions and Data Collection Approaches

      • Richard E. Bilsborrow

      Pages 109-156

   3. Data Prospects: IPUMS-International

      • Matt Sobek

      Pages 157-174

   4. Micro Methods: Longitudinal Surveys and Analyses

      • Cris Beauchemin, Bruno Schoumaker

      Pages 175-204

   5. Migration Analysis Using Demographic Surveys and Surveillance Systems

      • Philippe Bocquier

      Pages 205-223

   6. Migration Flows: Measurement, Analysis and Modeling

      • Frans Willekens

      Pages 225-241

5. Regional Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243

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   2. African Migration and Population Distribution: Recent Trends, Methodological Challenges and Policy Issues

      • Blessing Uchenna Mberu

      Pages 245-267

   3. Migration in Asia

      • Elin Charles-Edwards, Salut Muhidin, Martin Bell, Yu Zhu

      Pages 269-284

   4. Migration in China

      • Zai Liang, Qian Song

      Pages 285-309

   5. Changing Patterns of Migration in India: A Perspective on Urban Exclusion

      • Amitabh Kundu, Lopamudra Ray Saraswati

      Pages 311-332

   6. Migration in Australia and New Zealand

      • Graeme Hugo, Janet Wall, Margaret Young

      Pages 333-370

This Handbook offers a comprehensive collection of essays that cover essential features of geographical mobility, from internal migration, to international migration, to urbanization, to the adaptation of migrants in their destinations. Part I of the collection introduces the range of theoretical perspectives offered by several social science disciplines, while also examining the crucial relationship between internal and international migration. Part II takes up methods, ranging from how migration data are best collected to contemporary techniques for analyzing such data. Part III of the handbook contains summaries of present trends across all world regions. Part IV rounds out the volume with several contributions assessing pressing issues in contemporary policy areas. The volume’s editor Michael J. White has spent a career studying the pattern and process of internal and international migration, urbanization and population distribution in a wide variety of settings, from developing societies to advanced economies. In this Handbook he brings together contributors from all parts of the world, gathering in this one volume both geographical and substantive expertise of the first rank. The Handbook will be a key reference source for established scholars, as well as an invaluable high-level introduction to the most relevant topics in the field for emerging scholars.

• Assylum
• Emigration
• Handbook
• Integration
• Internal migration
• International migration
• Migration
• Population distribution
• Population movement
• Refugees
• Sociology
• Urbanization
• World migration trends

“This 27-chapter edited volume offers a comprehensive overview of the literature on migration and population distribution. … Each of the chapters in the volume has its own bibliography … . The volume succeeds admirably in its goal of providing a comprehensive state-of-the-knowledge.” (John Casterline, Population and Development Review, Vol. 42 (4), December, 2016)

• Brown University Dept. Sociology, Providence, USA

  Michael J. White

Michael J White is the Robert E. Turner Distinguished Professor of Population Studies and Professor of Sociology at Brown University, where he is also an affiliate and past director of the Population Studies and Training Center. White is also Honorary Research Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.  He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and he has served the Population Association of America and the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population in a variety of capacities. White’s own research on migration and population distribution covers a wide array of topics, from urban residential segregation, to rural-urban migration in developing societies, to contemporary international migration and immigrant assimilation. His studies span most world regions and both developing and developed settings. Other recent books include Achieving Anew: How New Immigrants Do in American Schools, Jobs, and Neighborhoods (with J Glick; Russell Sage, 2009) and The Dynamics of Migration, Health and Livelihoods (co-edited with M Collinson, K Adazu, and S Findley; Ashgate, 2009). White is currently investigating the role that interregional migration plays in influencing health outcomes in South Africa.