Increasing Migration, Diverging Communities: Changing Character of Migrant Streams in Rural Thailand

Increasing Migration, Diverging Communities: Changing Character of Migrant Streams in Rural Thailand.

This paper studies how increasing migration changes the character of migrant streams in sending communities. Cumulative causation theory posits that past migration patterns determine future flows, as prior migrants provide resources, influence, or normative pressures that make individuals more likely to migrate. The theory implies exponentially increasing migration flows that are decreasingly s...

The Changing Nature of Rural Communities

Prior to the decade of the Seventies, when rural communities in the United States entered the period known as the "population turn-around," their role in the larger economy was somewhat clearer than it has been at anytime since. In general, urban areas produced products in the early stages of the product cycle, while rural areas generated raw materials, food and energy, and in some regions, pro...

MIGRATION & RURAL DEVELOPMENT: An Assessment of the Impact of Migration on Rural Communities in Huancavelica, Peru

The Role of Migrant Elites in Rural Development

some rural-urban migrations, especially in countries and regions with strong kinship, tribal, community and ethnic relationships, have led to the creation of ethnic businesses within which entrepreneurial and business elites emerge. In some cases, the financial resources of these people return to their native villages and lead to rural development. Therefore, this research seeks to find the str...

Under-employment and rural migration in iran