This paper examines the utility of viewing migration in the context of careers and family life cycles by studying migration as a discretestate, continuous-time process. We find that the inverse relationship between age and migration is due almost completely to the effects of family life cycle and career variables, and further, that jobor location-specific resources, prestige, and wage deter mig...

Do children with migrant parents or family members have a greater likelihood of migration as they reach adulthood? Three possible patterns youth are examined in this study: (1) network migration, when families migrating first pave the way for subsequent generations to follow; (2) gendered where gender and left-behind influences probability migration; (3) relay which involves transgenerational s...

Migratory birds are often faithful to wintering (nonbreeding) sites, and also migration timing is usually remarkably consistent, that is, highly repeatable. Spatiotemporal repeatability can be of advantage for multiple reasons, including familiarity with local resources and predators as well as avoiding the costs of finding a new place, for example, nesting grounds. However, when the environmen...

In this paper we present the steps followed in a project called DigitArq that aimed at building a centralised repository for archival finding aids. At the Arquivo Distrital do Porto, finding aids existed in several different formats and media. Migration was used to convert all the finding aids into a single normalised format based on an international standard – the EAD/XML. After migration, arc...

Immigration and asylum are key political issues in Britain and the European Union. Yet the policies of states and supranational bodies seem to have had little success in preventing unwanted flows and effectively managing immigration and integration. This article examines three types of reasons for policy failure: factors arising from the social dynamics of the migratory process; factors linked ...

This chapter looks into the causes of behavioral changes among migrant Bangladeshi men after migration; especially changes in roles that they always considered are closely related to their gender identity. Masculinities inspire men to endure gender inequalities in the society. Therefore, one of the most significant causes of the chapter is to trace out the innate reasons of such changes, to pla...

The presence of demyelinated plaques in the central nervous system is the hallmark of multiple sclerosis (MS). Some plaques remyelinate but others do not, leaving permanent damage. The reasons for this failure of repair are many, but one possible reason is the lack of migration of oligodendrocyte precursor cells to the lesion. The guidance molecules Semaphorin 3A and 3F, already known to direct...

In the 2000s, a new migration trend of highly skilled Indian professionals towards Japan has appeared. This paper examines the factors that set off the incoming of highly skilled Indian professionals in Japan, mainly focusing on IT professionals’ immigration, and the reasons of the increase in their number. It investigates the influence of four factors: The Japanese immigration policy, the bila...

High Skilled Immigration in the International Arena This conceptual paper, prepared for a United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Migration and Development, is concerned with the international mobility of high-skilled workers, previously referred to as the “brain drain”. After discussing the historical background of high-skilled international migration, the paper examines the reasons for the rec...

We examine the impact of moving home, the distance moved and reasons for moving on both household income and labour market earnings for a representative sample of individuals using panel data. Our results suggest that there are monetary returns to migration which apply to both household income and labour market earnings. However, not all migrants enjoy these returns, which depend on distance mo...