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 …

Highlights•Migration has simultaneous offsetting positive and negative effects on
sustainability.•Migration affects sustainability in environmental, social, and economic …

The impact of climate change on migration has gained both academic and public interest in
recent years. Here we employ a meta-analysis approach to synthesize the evidence from 30 …

This article suggests that there is a mobility bias in migration research: by focusing on the
“drivers” of migration—the forces that lead to the initiation and perpetuation of migration …

Migration is the principal demographic process sha** patterns of human settlement, and it
serves an essential role in human development. While progress has been made in …

Widely available data on the number of people living outside of their country of birth do not
adequately capture contemporary intensities and patterns of global migration flows. We …

Unmitigated climate change will likely produce major problems for human populations
worldwide. Although many researchers and policy-makers believe that drought may be an …

Interstate migration in the United States has decreased steadily since the 1980s, but little is
known about the causes of this decline. We show that declining migration is related to a …

Using a large individual-level survey spanning several years and more than 150 countries,
we examine the importance of social networks in influencing individuals' intention to migrate …

Compared with other demographic processes, little attention has been given to the way
levels and patterns of internal migration vary around the world. This can be traced in part to …