Temporary labor migration in developing countries is an important urban ^ rural linkage that has a potential impact on rural development. According to the new economies of labor migration, it is often a strategy used by families with small farms to acquire investment capital for future business formation. In this paper, I argue further that human-capital accretion during migration reinforces th...

Roma people are likely Europe’s most discriminated and marginalized minority. In the past years, increasing attention has been paid to their migration Western Europe limited social mobility in countries of destination. Our article focuses on “post‐return” experiences changes generated by return communities origin, a topic largely neglected so far. We build recent debates around post‐return posi...

Return migration has probably been granted the lowest attention in field of family language policy (FLP). The current paper seeks to address this gap research and explores dynamics FLP a Polish context their temporary Germany return Poland. authors investigate how mobility affects FLP, especially towards L1 (Polish) L2 (German) migration. study takes qualitative, interview-based design, support...

Return migration is relatively understudied. migrants are “the persons who returning to their country of citizenship after having been international in another (both long-term and short-term migration) intended stay own at least for a period one year” (UNSD, 1998). We aim understand how return from different socio-economic backgrounds re-integrate into the economy society origin. The study base...

Return is discussed mostly in the context of migration, not regard to mobility. When it comes return EU citizens, seen as much a but retro-mobility. However, there are also great differences between member-states regarding patterns. These patterns influenced by socialization, work cultures, and concepts such safety, family self. differences, which do seem very crucial at first, can result retur...

Southern Africa has both a rapidly growing HIV epidemic and high levels of population mobility. The common assumption about the role of migration in the spread of HIV is that migrant men become infected while away and return home to infect their rural partners. However, I argue that at least at this late stage of South Africa’s epidemic, the role of migration is more complex, and there is evide...

Recent trends in migration in the United States are reviewed, focusing on the links between regional and metropolitan population change. Three explanations for the counterurbanization phenomenon of the 1970s are presented and their implications for future migration trends considered. The author concludes that "while 1970s core region declines may have been strongly linked to the counterurbani...

BACKGROUND China had 236 million internal migrants in 2012 and the majority of them migrated from rural to urban areas. The research based on medical and epidemical records found that the migrants had worse health than the urban residents, but the household and working place investigations reported better health status. The sick or unhealthy migrants are likely to return to their hometowns, whi...