Regularising freer movement of people across African borders is one of the continent’s great developmental challenges.
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Articles on Emigration
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The plight of those who felt compelled to leave when that reality ended is often overlooked.
Facing incentives to leave and high unemployment at home, Albania’s young people are migrating in large numbers.
A passport from the United Arab Emirates will get you into far more destinations than one from Afghanistan. Gaps like this have big implications for people’s ability to travel, reside and work.
Drawn by jobs - or escaping climate change - many people from the Pacific are moving elsewhere.
During the Cold War, Russia’s refusal to allow Jews to leave the country reflected its political aims. The same is likely true today, a Jewish studies scholar explains.
The influx of migrants from West Africa must be viewed as a manifestation of problems in the countries of origin.
The European Union is once again faced with the danger of destabilization. Putin’s cyberwar on free societies using the migration crisis went well in 2015. He must not succeed now in Poland or beyond.
Demographers have figured out a simple and effective way to estimate the number of unauthorized immigrants – even without information on citizenship.
Migration helped forge the very social, cultural and economic infrastructures that Britain now seeks to wall off from the rest of the world.
Between 2000 and 2015, the population of U.S. citizen minors living in Mexico more than doubled. Who are the kids living on the other side of the border?
What migration figures really tell us about the movement of people.
For Australia, the median age is 37.2 years. The Northern Territory is the youngest state or territory with a a median age of 32.4 years and Tasmania is the oldest at 42 years.
Yes, a lot of Turkish citizens are looking for a chance to start new lives abroad – but not all of them are doing it for the same reasons.
As democracy unravels and hunger spreads, Venezuelan youth must decide whether to join the resistance or build their lives abroad.
This problem masks a greater threat to the welfare state than it first appears.
In an unequal, globalised world, should we be able to move between states as freely as we can within them?
Some perspective on the government’s net migration target.
How can we possibly know how many millions of people are living in the U.S. illegally? Demographers have actually refined a simple formula that’s worked pretty well since the 1970s.
The case of a man stripped of his EU citizenship offers some guidance for emigrants living in legally uncharted territory after the Brexit vote.
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Roy C. Buck Professor of Sociology and Demography, Penn State
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Reader in Social Policy, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Human Geography, University of Sydney
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Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University
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Professor of Sociology and Chair, University of Colorado Boulder
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Associate Professor in the Practice of Finance, Emory University
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Lecturer in eighteenth-century history, The Open University
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Research Fellow, Coventry University
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Professor of Social Policy, University of York
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Associate Professor, Durham University
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Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in Geography, Nottingham Trent University
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Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, University of Sussex
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Professor, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer in Law, The Open University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Institute for Social Change, University of Tasmania
