Migration can act as a negative force. It can lead to distress migration, which is what happens when people have to go … rural urban migration? [CCS Working Paper No. 202]. …

The paper reviews the existing evidence on migration-poverty interface in the light of the macro and micro level … studies in India. It also discusses the extent, patterns, and correlates of short term migration with the help a large set of …

highlight the diversity of returning migrants and illustrate through examples how return migration can influence the health of …Return migration and health has received little attention in policy and research. This article will focus on the risk … factors and social determinants of health during all phases of migration that can impact the health of returnees. It will …

The rapid and massive increase of rural-to-urban migration in China has drawn attention to the welfare of migrant … national census survey to investigate discrimination in urban labour markets against rural migrants, by comparing their … earnings and the sector (formal vs. informal) they work in with those of urban residents and urban migrants. Exploiting …

relationship between chronic, or long-term, poverty and processes of migration. The paper presents a framework to enable an … stay, the processes by which they are compelled or excluded from adopting migration as a livelihood strategy and the … circumstances under which migration sustains chronic poverty or presents an opportunity to move out of poverty [WP No. 16]. …

This paper investigates the impact of political leaders’ migration experience on the quality of their leadership. A … results are confirmed by various robustness tests. They propose a new channel through which migration may affect politics in …

-state migrants are examined, and .it is found that they consume fewer calories for a given level of food spending than otherwise … similar consumers. This effect only disappears two generations after migration, as tastes adjust to local prices. These …