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The age of migration : international population movements in the modern world / Stephen Castles, Mark J. Miller.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009Edition: Fourth editionDescription: xviii, 369 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0230517846
  • 9780230517844
  • 0230517854
  • 9780230517851
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 325.09 22
LOC classification:
  • JV6032 .C37 2009
Contents:
Introduction -- Theories of migration -- Globalization, development and migration -- International migration before 1945 -- Migration to Europe, North America and Oceania since 1945 -- Migration in the Asia-Pacific region -- Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, and Latin America -- The state and international migration : the quest for control -- Migration and security -- Migrants and minorities in the labour force -- New ethnic minorities and society -- Migrants and politics -- Conclusion : migration and mobility in the twenty-first century.
Summary: This edition provides coverage of the nature, extent and dimensions of international population movements and of their consequences in an increasingly multicultural world.
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Previous ed.: 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-349) and index.

Introduction -- Theories of migration -- Globalization, development and migration -- International migration before 1945 -- Migration to Europe, North America and Oceania since 1945 -- Migration in the Asia-Pacific region -- Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, and Latin America -- The state and international migration : the quest for control -- Migration and security -- Migrants and minorities in the labour force -- New ethnic minorities and society -- Migrants and politics -- Conclusion : migration and mobility in the twenty-first century.

This edition provides coverage of the nature, extent and dimensions of international population movements and of their consequences in an increasingly multicultural world.

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