...and all indications are that this number will swell in the next decade. This displacement process has implications that can be explored from many disciplinary perspectives, and that pose challenges to governments at every level. Sending and receiving societies are vitally affected by migrant choices, and individuals face enormous problems in adapting to new settings and circumstances. The resources linked below provide entrée into the migration literatures and pointers to information sources and organizations.
I will augment the pages as I find more materials, and as my explorations of specific facets progress. I would be happy to receive comments and suggestions for additions: blackmerh@wlu.edu.
updated: 28 February 2004
Books
Some books on migration issues in W&L libraries and new and forthcoming books from amazon.com (a quasi-informed selection)
European Yearbook of Minority Issues Caroline Brettell (Editor) et al.
Stalker, Peter
Exodus Within Borders: An Introduction to the Crisis of Internal Displacement (1999)
David A. Korn
How Much Do National Borders Matter? (1998)
John F. Helliwell
Migration Issues
in the Asia Pacific
compiled by
Patrick Brownlee and Colleen Mitchell
Journals
Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies
Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (content seems to be free)
International Migration Review archive via JSTOR (1966-1997) and current issue TOC (institutional subscription $81/year)
Migration News from UC Davis
World on the Move (newsletter of the American Sociological Association Section on International Migration)
Selected articles
A selection from the JSTOR Population Studies collection:
International Migration 1965-96: An Overview
Hania Zlotnik
Population and Development Review, Vol. 24, No. 3. (Sep., 1998), pp. 429-468.
China's "Tidal Wave" of Migrant Labor: What Can We Learn from Mexican Undocumented Migration to the United States?
Kenneth D. Roberts
International Migration Review, Vol. 31, No. 2. (Summer, 1997), pp. 249-293.
Measuring Spatial Focusing in a Migration System (in National and International Migration)
David A. Plane; Gordon F. Mulligan
Demography, Vol. 34, No. 2. (May, 1997), pp. 251-262.
Internal Migration in China, 1950-1988 (in Migration)
Zai Liang; Michael J. White
Demography, Vol. 33, No. 3. (Aug., 1996), pp. 375-384.
Beyond the Enlightenment Mentality: A Confucian Perspective on Ethics, Migration, and Global Stewardship (in Part I: Religious Traditions and Migration)
Weiming Tu
International Migration Review, Vol. 30, No. 1, Special Issue: Ethics, Migration, and Global Stewardship. (Spring, 1996), pp. 58-75.
Realistic and Idealistic Approaches to the Ethics of Migration (in Part III: Migration, Politics, and Ethics)
Joseph H. Carens
International Migration Review, Vol. 30, No. 1, Special Issue: Ethics, Migration, and Global Stewardship. (Spring, 1996), pp. 156-170.
You Can't Take It with You? Immigrant Assimilation and the Portability of Human Capital (Rachel M. Friedberg) Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 18, No. 2, Apr., 2000
pp. 221-251
econpapers search: employment near assimilation
Immigration Policy, Assimilation of Immigrants and Natives' Sentiments towards Immigrants: Evidence from 12 OECD Countries Center for Comparative Immigration Studies working paper
Immigration, Asylum and Extremist Politics - Europe and Australia
James Jupp (paper presented at 2003 conference, Sydney)
Transnational Communities Working Papers series from Oxford
Reports
International Migration: Facing the Challenge (Population Bulletin, March 2002)
OECD International Migration and pdf of Trends in International Migration: continuous reporting system on migration 2002 Annual Report (371 pages... and their 27th...) (cached here)
UN Internal Migration Report 2002 (cached here)
Statistics
Remittances data from IMF Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook
Organizations
Electronic Immigration Network a voluntary sector organisation specialising in the provision of information on immigration and refugee law via the Internet, particularly in the United Kingdom and Europe
European Migration Information Network (EMIN), a web-based system designed to provide a gateway to information on international migration.
European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER) at Univ Utrecht
Immigrant Institute Borås, Sweden: a non-governmental organisation which aim is to be a research and documentation centre about immigrants and refugees, with an archive, a library and a museum
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UCSD
Inter-University Committee on International Migration at MIT
The Border and Transcultural Studies Research Circle at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies Universität Osnabrück
The Global Campaign for Ratification of the Convention on Rights of Migrants
US Association for International Migration
Center for Immigration Studies
Our Mission . . . It is the Center's mission to expand the base of public knowledge and understanding of the need for an immigration policy that gives first concern to the broad national interest. The Center is animated by a pro-immigrant, low-immigration vision which seeks fewer immigrants but a warmer welcome for those admitted.
Publications . . . The Center publishes Backgrounders, papers, and other reports.
Specific Issues and Settings
demographic summaries of selected Hispanic population groups in the United States based on their nation of origin
MIGRINTER conference on conceptualising social networks and migration: empirical contributions and theoretical challenges
Institute CNRS, University of Poitiers (France), 26-27 May 2003
Web Resources
Peter Stalker's Guide to International Migration
Immigration & Migration
from UT Austin's Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) --includes links to quite a few essential resources from many nations
google 'global diasporas' search (16K+ hits)
google 'transnational communities' search (6300+ hits)
Diasporas from The Postcolonial Web
push and pull factors determining international migration flows from Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)
Why do people migrate? (Eurostat Statistics in Focus, Feb 2001)
International Migration and Multicultural Policies at UNESCO
Leiden University’s History of International Migration Site
ILO International Labor Migration Asian Migration Atlas and Asian Migration News (Scalabrini Migration Center)
Overview of International Migrations (Daniel Martínez, ILO)
Migrant Activities in Asia (ILO)
Current dynamics of international labour migration:
Globalisation and regional integration (ILO) links from University of New Brunswick Demography and Population Resources
Country of Origin Information from UNHCR
Examples of technology:
Domestic (State of Hawaii) In-Migration and Out-Migration Maps (2000 Census)
animated Scots-Irish migration map (from SMSU)
(see 5. Sex-Specific Net Migration Gains and Losses in South-East England, 1901-11)
Films
The documentary mentioned by Mohamed: Sorius Samura's Exodus ...which I've ordered for the library
304 documentaries listed in Immigration at MediaRights.org
15th annual Latin American Film Festival to focus on immigration, cultural challenges (from UNC) --see list of films
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fragments to keep for eventual integration:
Working Papers on internal migration from Geography Dept, Leeds:
Internal migration and regional population dynamics in Europe: Sweden case study (pdf paper)
(html abstract)
Internal migration and regional population dynamics in Europe: Spain case study (pdf paper)
(html abstract)
Internal migration and regional population dynamics in Europe: Finland case study (pdf paper)
(html abstract)
31 October
4 November
Of Diaspora:
Diasporas exist in three overlapping but distinct forms. First, they are actual social formations made up of individuals, extended families, small groups and the relations conducted between them, within a partially closed communal field that can be idetified (e.g., 'a Greek diaspora community'). This diaspora functions within the host society and state around it (e.g., 'the Greek diaspora community in Germany'), but also within the larger framework of the transnational field in which this particular diaspora sustains connections with other Greek diaspora communities, the totality of 'the Greek diaspora', and the homeland. Finally, the transnational frame is itself imbedded in and shaped by the largest field of all, that of supranationalism and globalization. Second, diasporas exist as multiple 'imagined communities' (Anderson 1991). That is to say, they are constantly articulated by their own individual and institutional members, who construct and disseminate numerous representations of what they are, what their diasporic experience feels like and what it means or should mean... [they] aspire to develop their own discourse, shape themselves by their own cultural production and consumption and claim the right to ascribe meaning to their experience. They do so in contestation with the hegemonic representational media and the state mechanisms of the societies that host them. The third form of diasporic existence is wholly discursive: disaporas exist as objects of knowledge, as concepts, models and problematics for a number of scholarly disciplines, ranging from anthropology and ethnomusicology to postcolonial literary studies and sociology... (Kachig Tölölyan in Disporas and Ethnic Migrants, pg. 56)
13 December
The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2003 ISBN 90-411-1956-6
€ 200.00 US$ 192.00 £ 126.00
(see European Centre for Minority Issues for more publications)
Migration Theory : Talking Across the Disciplines
JV6035 .M545 2000
Social scientists do not approach the study of immigration from a shared paradigm, but from a variety of competing theoretical viewpoints fragmented across disciplines, regions, and ideologies. As a result, research on the subject tends to be narrow, often inefficient, and characterized by duplication, miscommunication, reinvention, and bickering about fundamentals... (quoting Massey et al 1994:700-701)
Workers without frontiers : the impact of globalization on international migration
Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers ; Geneva : ILO, c2000.
HD6300 .S734 2000.
Most predictions point to a much higher scale of labor mobility in the twenty-first century, not because of liberalization of immigration controls, but because of growing labor supply pressures, rising income inequalities within and across nations brought about by globalization itself, and the revolution in information and communication technologies. (xi, Forward by Warner Sengenberger)
International Migration --articles at $19/each... and institutional subscription is
$251/year including online access and the backfile.
dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of the history, culture, social structure, politics and economics of both the traditional diasporas – Armenian, Greek, and Jewish – and those transnational dispersions which in the past three decades have chosen to identify themselves as ‘diasporas.’ These encompass groups ranging from the African-American to the Ukrainian-Canadian, from the Caribbean-British to the new East and South Asian diasporas. (Institutional subscription $65)
Etude de la Population Africaine/African Population Studies is a
bilingual journal (French and English) published two times a year in
April and October by the Union for African Population Studies. It
publishes dependable and timely information emanating from original
research on African population, development and related fields. Online
issues are free and date back to 1994.
Diasporas
James Clifford
Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 9, No. 3, Further Inflections: Toward Ethnographies of the Future. (Aug., 1994), pp. 302-338.
International Migration at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century: The Role of the State(in Notes and Commentary)
Douglas S. Massey
Population and Development Review, Vol. 25, No. 2. (Jun., 1999), pp. 303-322.
The Economics of Immigration
George J. Borjas
Journal of Economic Literature 1994 32 (4)1667-1717 (long listing of citations)
Abstract:
The national origin of an individual's human capital is a crucial determinant of its value. Education and labor market experience acquired abroad are significantly less valued than human capital obtained domestically. This difference can fully explain the earnings disadvantage of immigrants relative to comparable natives in Israel. Variation in the return to foreign schooling across origin countries may reflect differences in its quality and compatibility with the host labor market. The return to foreign experience is generally insignificant. Acquiring additional education following immigration appears to confer a compound benefit by raising the return to education acquired abroad.
International Labour Migration Statistics (ILO)
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
USAIM is the American partner organization of the International Organization for Migration. The mission of USAIM is to broaden public awareness and mobilize private sector resources in support of domestic and international programs that provide assistance to migrants and refugees. USAIM concentrates its efforts on trafficking of humans, health (especially HIV/AIDS), emergency relief, and public information campaigns. USAIM does so primarily by supporting and promoting the work of the IOM, which is committed to the principle that humane and orderly migration benefits migrants and society. IOM, a Geneva-based intergovernmental organization, was established in 1951 and currently has offices in over 100 countries around the world.
Who We Are . . . The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit research organization founded in 1985. It is the nation's only think tank devoted exclusively to research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, fiscal, and other impacts of immigration on the United States.
Immigration and Denmark
WWW Virtual Library on Migration and Ethnic Relations
Maps and Mapping
This new section on diaspora seeks to reorganize the links to documents on the website while also introducing new categories. By listing authors according to various general diasporas such as the African or Indian diasporas, it enables one to appreciate how the sense of homelessness and displacement has come to produce types of culture that are not geographically synchronous.
International Migration Papers
Waldo Tobler migration presentation --see also MIGRATION: RAVENSTEIN, THORNTWAITE, AND BEYOND and Experiments In Migration Mapping
Project GeoSim from VaTech: "This module provides students with the means to develop and test models relating to migration patterns. Simulated migration based on a model developed by a student can be compared to the actual migration during a decade in the United States." (basics and downloadable here) (C:\Program Files\GeoSim\MigModel) (tutorial here)
The Movies, Race, and Ethnicity:
Immigrants Within Europe from UC Berkeley
Internal migration and regional population dynamics in Europe: Denmark case study (pdf paper)
(html abstract)
(2001)
Marek Kupiszewski, Sven Illeris, Helen Durham, Phil Rees (2001)
Marek Kupiszewski, Lars-Erik Borgegard, Urban Fransson, Johan Hakansson, Helen Durham, Phil Rees
Arlinda Garcia Coll and John Stillwell (2000)
Marek Kupiszewski, Elli Heikkila, Mauri Nieminen, Helen Durham, Phil Rees, and Dorota Kupiszewska (2000)
Thai numbers
One pregnant question, which arises in looking at the contents of Cambridge Survey: what are the limitations of a 9-year-old source? Are the 'Emerging Trends' worth exploring, to ask what the outcomes were, or should we be searching out today's Emerging Trends?
The familiar meaning of the term implies exile (and so covers territory of deportation, expulsion, forced repatriation, etc.), but other senses are appearing in literatures, and emphasize the connectedness of spatially dispersed communities (thus, a Philipino diaspora, or a Hakka diaspora, is more cencerned with migration and return than with permanent exile, and with cultural continuities rather than enclaves of isolated ethnic identity).
Migrants who decide to form incipient diasporas experience multifaceted pressures that are generated and exerted by various groupings among the migrants themselves, by host governments and social forces in host countries (especially by competing ethnic groups and by rightist and nationalist elements in the dominant group) and by various social, political and religious forces in their homelands... Members of such entities consciously maintain their ethnonational identity and they create communal organizations. They maintain explicit and implicit contacts with their homelands and, even if only in a rudimentary form, they develop trans-state networks connecting them and their organizations with their respective homelands and co-ethnics in other host countries and face grave dilemmas concerning ambiguous, dual and divided loyalties to their homelands and host countries. (Gabriel Sheffer in Disporas and Ethnic Migrants, pg. 25, 26)
Forced Migration Network Links from UNESCO