Ein Blick auf historische Wanderbewegungen, vor allem aus Europa, Japan und Mexiko in die USA, belegt zwar die These, daß langfristig die Förderung des Lebensstandards in den Herkunftsländern die Abwanderung weitgehend stoppen kann. Eine kurzfristige Umkehrung der Migration kann jedoch auf...

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...

This chapter undertook the monumental task of providing a complete outlook about return, repeat, circular and onward migration by bringing together the perspectives of the host and the home country. In this endeavor, it reviewed and evaluated all theories about why people move, when they...