Society in Contesting Globalization -- Part II -- The Migration of Elites in a Borderless World: Citizenship as an Incentive …In an age of globalization there is frequent migration across national borders, resulting in a reconsideration of the … that it will contribute to scholarship in the fields of citizenship and migration and to an understanding of the flow of …

In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving … country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later … attachment to the household would be more inclined to remit money home. Therefore, remittances can be seen as a proxy for the …

exclusionary realities in Bangladesh-Malaysia migration policies : discourse on networks and development / Akm Ahsan Ullah … / Dong-Hoon Seol -- Circular migration and its socioeconomic consequences : the economic marginality among Japanese brazilian … -- Marginalization of rural migrants in China's transitional cities / Li Zhang -- Living at the margins : migration and the contested …

focus on seasonal migration from rural to urban areas as a potential coping strategy and review the evidence on the effects … of encouraging seasonal migration through transport subsidies. Over the past 10 years, we have conducted a series of … randomized control trials in Bangladesh and Indonesia that provided rural agricultural workers with small migration subsidies to …

intersection of disasters and migration in Asia and details the story of how disasters may affect mobility, from displacement to … voluntary migration to "trapped populations." It also provides an overview of the "migration as adaptation" literature, which …, as well as the uneven outcomes of disaster-related remittances in Asia. In addition, it gives insight into predicted …

This study examines the potential of remittances for promoting economic growth and reducing poverty in Asian countries … using data for more than 20 countries in the region for 1988-2007. The results indicate that remittances positively affect … home country real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita growth. A 10% increase in remittances as a share of GDP leads to …