ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Francis Deng, Circular Migration, Forced Migration
9 Apr 2018
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Reading - chapter 14: people on the move. Migration: movement of a person from one place to another: related to other aspects of life; job, family status, may a ect; mental health and social relationships, 1/3 core areas of demography. Along with fertility and mortality: related to economic and reproductive systems, no domain of human life not a ected by migration. Internal migration: movement within state boundaries: has grown since 1945 and mid 1980s, nearly 2% of the world population lives outside home countries, 35 million migrated to industrialized countries [in 3 past decades] Transnational migration: regular movement between 2 or more countries: forms a new cultural identity, a ects migrant"s identity & senes of citizenship. Push-pull theory: rural to urban migration: emphasizes people"s incentives to move based on a lack of opportunity. Remittance: transfer of money/goods by migrant to family back home.
