Chapter · December 27, 2023
Over one-third of all international migration is between countries of the Global South, a greater share than South-North migration in 2020. This chapter reviews global, regional, and county-level trends in South-South migration between 1990 and 2020 using ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Migration Review · December 13, 2023
There is growing interest from both policy and academic communities in understanding why people do not migrate. This article offers the first global analysis of the aspiration to stay, defined here as the preference to stay in one's country of res ...
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Journal ArticleFrontiers in Climate · January 1, 2023
Climate change will have significant impacts on all aspects of human society, including population movements. In some cases, populations will be displaced by natural disasters and sudden-onset climate events, such as tropical storms. In other cases, climat ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Forces · June 1, 2022
This paper examines why young women in rural Ethiopia decide to migrate as domestic workers to the Middle East. Based on survey data and 84 in-depth interviews, it explores the forces shaping young women's aspirations and capabilities to migrate, challengi ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Ethnic and Migration Studies · January 1, 2022
Far fewer people migrate than global disparities in wealth and well-being would lead us to predict, yet we know relatively little about why those who presumably have much to gain from migration prefer to stay in place. This article examines the motivations ...
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Journal ArticleMigration Studies · December 1, 2021
This article examines the impact of Ethiopia's historical development on the nature, volume, and direction of internal and international migration. We describe three important trends associated with an emerging 'mobility transition': the sedentarization of ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Migration Review · June 1, 2020
This article suggests that there is a mobility bias in migration research: by focusing on the “drivers” of migration — the forces that lead to the initiation and perpetuation of migration flows — migration theories neglect the countervailing structural and ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Ethnic and Migration Studies · April 26, 2018
It is a refreshingly simple thought that migration is the combined result of two factors: the aspiration to migrate and the ability to migrate. Without having to resort to overly structural or individualistic explanations, this analytical distinction helps ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of cognitive neuroscience · August 2012
The suppression of spontaneous motor impulses is an essential facet of cognitive control that is linked to frontal-BG circuitry. BG dysfunction caused by Parkinson disease (PD) disrupts the proficiency of action suppression, but how pharmacotherapy for PD ...
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