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Cluster Themes |
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Migration and Ageing |
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Established migration theories have long asserted international migration to be a venture of the young and healthy. But persons of retirement ages are now increasingly on the move. Growing numbers of Japanese seniors are heading for Southeast Asia, Hong Kongers and Taiwanese to mainland China, and...
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Migration and Gender |
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Gender is an essential aspect of migration processes and outcomes. Gender largely determines who migrates and who is left behind, why and when people migrate, and what pattern migration takes. In turn, migration reconfigures gender roles, relations and ideologies, both locally and transnationally. Yet...
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Migration and Global Cities |
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Intercultural contact and communications are hallmarks of every post-modern society.The phenomenon increase in transnational contact in the last few decades has been made possible due to advances in communication technologies, including direct air and sea travels. People from one cultural community may now migrate...
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Migration and International Marriage |
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Various forms of international migration have contributed to the transformation of marital patterns. International marriage markets, the separation of spouses as a result of economic migration and the emergence of high-mobility forms of employment have all changed the environment in which...
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Migration and Social Development |
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Migration has become an established feature of contemporary social and economic life, entailing both positive and negative manifestations for the countries and individuals involved. Several global reports (World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization, Global Commission on Human Security and Global Commission on International Migration) have recently...
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