This article compares the impact of family migrant and destination-specific networks on international and internal migration. We find that migrant networks are more important for international moves than for internal moves and that female networks are more important than male networks for moves within Mexico. For moves to the United States, male migrant networks are more important for prospecti...

Migration is one of the key aspects Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To understand global migration patterns, develop scenarios, design effective policies, focus on population’s needs, and identify how these needs change over time, we need accurate, reliable timely data. The gaps in international data have persisted since organizations collect improve gaps, there a to conceptualize types p...

Post-Socialist International Migration: The Case of China-to-South Korea Ethnic Labour Migration This paper examines an atypical south-north labour migration that emerged in the postsocialist international migration system: China-to-South Korea ethnic labour migration. In the past two decades, South Korea has experienced an unprecedented increase in the arrival of foreign labour. The majority o...

Foreword This is a paper of the ILO=s International Migration Branch. The objectives of the Branch are to contribute to: (i) the formulation, application and evaluation of international migration policies suited to the economic and social aims of governments, employers= and workers= organizations; and (ii) the increase of equality of opportunity and treatment of migrants and the protection of t...