Calvin Goldscheider - Migration, Population Structure, And Redistribution Policies

Migration, Population Structure, and Redistribution Policies, edited by Calvin Goldscheider

Fertility Transitions, Family Structure, and Population Policy, edited by Calvin Goldscheider

Development, Demography, and Family Decision-Making: The Status of Women in Rural Java, Linda B. Williams

Labor Allocation and Rural Development: Migration in Four Javanese Villages, Philip Guest

Urbanization and Development: The Rural-Urban Transition in Taiwan, Alden Speare, Jr., Paul K.C. Liu, and Ching-lung Tsay

Scandinavian Exodus: Demography and Social Development of the 19th-Century Rural Communities, Briant Lindsay Lowell

Rural Development and Migration: A Study of Family Choices in the Philippines, Sally E. Findley

Social Change and Family Processes: Arab Communities in Shefar-Am, Majid Al-Haj

Why People Intend to Move: Individual and Community-Level Factors of Out- Migration in the Philippines, Sun-Hee Lee

Rural Migration in Developing Nations: Comparative Studies of Korea, Sri Lanka, and Mali, edited by Calvin Goldscheider

Urban Migrants in Developing Nations: Patterns and Problems of Adjustment, edited by Calvin Goldscheider

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Population and Social Change in Israel, edited by Calvin Goldscheider

First published 1992 by Westview Press

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Migration, population structure, and redistribution policies / edited

by Calvin Goldscheider.

p. cm. (Brown University studies in population and development)

Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-8133-8536-9
1. Migration, Internal. 2. Emigration and immigration.

I. Goldscheider, Calvin. II. Series.
HB1952.M551992
304.8dc20

92-2521
CIP

ISBN 13: 978-0-367-00804-8 (hbk)

The movement of people between and within countries is increasingly recognized as critical to understanding the complex linkages between population processes and socio-economic-political development. Migration is a central feature of the population system, linked to the size, composition, and structure of populations as well to the other demographic processes-mortality and fertility. In addition, the study of migration emphasizes the linkages to broad societal changes, makes explicit connections to social structure, economic opportunities, and political constraints, and places the study of movement in the context of communities of origin and destination. Migration, therefore, links the study of societies and communities along with the analysis of choices individuals and households make about where to live, seek work, form new families, and establish social, political, cultural, and economic networks.

Linkages between migration patterns and households, networks, communities, and larger social processes extend the analysis of movement beyond the population system, focusing on the social as well as on the individual levels. Our theories of migration and the frameworks that guide our understanding of its determinants and consequences stress the importance of two broad complex processes that are critical to understanding demographic transitions. These are: (1) differences in socio-economic-political development over time and between countries; and (2) differences within societies and between generatioas and inequality in the ways resources and rewards are distributed. These are master-themes in the social sciences and inform the analysis of demographic processes. These themes take on particular significance in the study of migration. Often underlying development are major population movements from agricultural to urban areas and to places of new economic opportunities that expose migrants to new economic-political configurations accompanying these population shifts. Migration connects old and new areas, areas of economic growth and decline; migrants themselves become links between places of origin and destination-links that are cultural and social, political, and economic. At the same time, migration reflects the economic inequalities among areas and the unequal distribution of resources within a population. Over time and between generations, migration may lead to a more equal distribution of resources among persons and places.

Intervening between macroprocesses of development, broad processes of change, and the nature of social organization (including political, economic, and cultural systems) on the one hand, and issues of stratification and inequalities on the other, are the institutions and communities that shape how families and individuals within families connect to these changes. The challenge of the social scientific analysis of migration is to study how processes of development and distribution are linked to population movements, what determines changes in mobility and variation among groups over time, and how these translate into institutional supports and community contexts and become expressed at individual and family levels.