Xin Lü, David Wrathall, Pål Sundsøy, Md. Nadiruzzaman et al.
Climate change is likely to drive migration from environmentally stressed areas. However quantifying short and long-term movements across large areas is challenging due to difficulties in the collection of highly spatially and temporally resolved human mobility data. In this study we use two dataset...
Sylvia Chant, Radcliffe Sa
The aim of the text on gender and migration in developing countries is to show through case studies and comparative analysis essential features of gender selectivity in migration. The focus on women is justified by a scarcity of studies on womens experiences in migration a need to know why women exp...
Abu Siddique, Eliyathamby A. Selvanathan, Saroja Selvanathan
Abstract In many developing countries, remittance payments from migrant workers are increasingly becoming a significant source of export income. This article investigates the causal link between remittances and economic growth in three countries, Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka, by employing the Gra...
Behrooz Hassani‐Mahmooei, Brett Parris
Abstract Bangladesh is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change impacts such as extreme weather events, due to its low-lying topography, high population density and widespread poverty. In this paper, we report on the development and results of an agent-based model of the migration dyna...
Soma Rani Sutradhar
Abstract This paper investigates the impact of workers’ remittances on economic growth of four South Asian emerging countries by employing balanced panel data from 1977 to 2016. Pooled OLS, fixed effects, random effects and dummy variable interaction models are used to estimate the impact of remitta...
M. Rezaul Islam, Mehedi Hasan
Maia Call, Clark Gray, Mohammad Yunus, Michael Emch
Mass migration is one of the most concerning potential outcomes of global climate change. Recent research into environmentally induced migration suggests that relationship is much more complicated than originally posited by the ‘environmental refugee’ hypothesis. Climate change is likely to increase...
Richard Berthoud
It has been known for many years that Britain's ethnic minorities suffer disadvantage in employment. Recent findings have, however, shown a gap between the experiences of different minority groups. Indians and Chinese have employment rates and earnings levels similar to those of white members of the...
Bishawjit Mallick, Joachim Vogt
Rachel Jenkins, Robert R. Kydd, Paul E. Mullen, Kenneth J. Thomson et al.
BACKGROUND: Migration of health professionals from low and middle income countries to rich countries is a large scale and long-standing phenomenon, which is detrimental to the health systems in the donor countries. We sought to explore the extent of psychiatric migration. METHODS: In our study, we u...
Vinay Gidwani, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Abstract Harnessing primary and secondary evidence from India, our essay conceptualizes the cultural dynamics of migration. In so doing, it demonstrates the incompleteness of standard marginalist and Marxist accounts of labor circulation. As a corrective, we examine the linkages between culture, pol...
International Organization for Migration
Since 2000, IOM has been producing its flagship world migration reports every two years. The World Migration Report 2024, the twelfth in the world migration report series, has been produced to contribute to increased understanding of migration and mobility throughout the world. The last two years sa...
Reece Jones
This article investigates local actions that transgress, subvert, and ignore the imposition of sovereign authority at the borders of sovereign states. It describes the creation and gradual securitization of the 4,096-km border between India and Bangladesh, which has culminated with the construction ...
Petra Dannecker
The article discusses the transformations of gender relations due to transnational migration between Bangladesh and Malaysia. It is shown that the uneven economic development in Asia during the last decades has not only initiated new migration movements and patterns but has also led to a feminizatio...
Amelie Bernzen, J. Craig Jenkins, Boris Braun
Discussions of climate migration have recognized the need for probabilistic, systematic, and empirical analyses. We examine the importance of environmental stressors in migration using a multi-leveled analysis of a household survey of the climate-stressed rural communities of coastal Bangladesh. We ...