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Migration, Human Development, and the Life Course

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Handbook of the Life Course

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Every year and at every age humans move. They move from one house to another, from one school to another, from one job to another, from one state to another, and, in moves that rouse the notice of nation states, they move from one country to another. In moving, they are displaying the hallmarks of the human condition. Impelled by fundamental forces of survival and human development, keen to attain the ends for which they were made, they search for a better country, make plans for a new life, and move to undertake that new life.

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    Guillermina Jasso

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Jasso, G. (2003). Migration, Human Development, and the Life Course. In: Mortimer, J.T., Shanahan, M.J. (eds) Handbook of the Life Course. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-306-48247-2_16

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