The household registration (hukou) system in China was studied using China's 1990 census 1% microdata and interprovincial migration studies. In doing this, the socioeconomic characteristics and geographical patterns of long-distance hukou and non-hukou migratory flows were compared before developing a framework of dual migration circuits. The framework uses a statistical model to evaluate mig...

The Great Migration-the massive migration of African Americans out of the rural South to largely urban locations in the North, Midwest, and West-was a landmark event in U.S. HISTORY Our paper shows that this migration increased mortality of African Americans born in the early twentieth century South. This inference comes from an analysis that uses proximity of birthplace to railroad lines as...

Background and aim: Malawi’s rainfed, agrarian economy is vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Changes in crop production may impact household food security wealth. Popular narratives ‘climate migration’ suggests that, amongst other responses, migration (usually rural-to-rural or rural-to-urban) will increase response change, as households attempt diversify their income improve prospect...