This paper reviews the recent literature on rural-urban migration in develo** countries,
focusing on three key questions: What motivates or forces people to migrate? What costs do …

ABSTRACT A critical review of the state-of-the-art in migration studies. The paper centres on
a contrast between established comparative scholarship–elaborating progressive models of …

The notion of 'immigrant integration'is used everywhere–by politicians, policy makers,
journalists and researchers–as an all-encompassing framework for rebuilding 'unity from …

Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are
inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth …

The majority of countries and regions within the Global South deal with significant and
growing challenges militating the attainment of food security. Food insecurity in the Global …

The experiences of student life can have lasting impacts on an individual's future outcomes.
We take the policy of the Rural Primary School Consolidation Program (RPSCP) in 2001 as …

Retirees' mobility patterns from origin cities to tourist destinations in pursuit of a “good life”
have become a worldwide research topic as studies originating in Western countries spread …

This article aims to investigate the following question: How does the process of urbanization
of rural–urban migrants (shiminhua) unfold in Chinese cities? It focuses on the urbanization …

This paper aims to answer the research questions of 'How did COVID-19 aggravate the
uncertainties in geographical fieldwork, and how could the researchers cope with the …

Reflecting on the changing historical backdrop to the various editions of Migration Theory:
Talking across Disciplines, this post-script offers a brief introduction to the new generations …