Publication Type: Abstract
Abstract: By using a social psychological approach, this research investigated whether occupational aspirations led to migration for rural youth. The research question this paper is: Are young to middle-aged adults in rural areas with higher occupational aspirations more likely to migrate out of rural areas than young to middle-aged adults with lower aspirations. The age group for this study is 14-35. Aspirations were measured using Duncan's socioeconomic index (SEI) with data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth in 1979. Results show that youth with high occupational aspirations migrate more than youth with medium and low occupational aspirations. They are more likely to reside in an urban county of residence in their middle ages.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: In a policy context marked by discourses of immigration, integration and identity, rising numbers of the EU's own citizens are moving between member states. This is movement that defies several of the assumptions underpinning conventional narratives of human mobility and classical tools of measurement. The EU's migrants desire change, but not necessarily settlement. They choose to move between roughly similar economic and political environments. They move as citizens (of the EU; of their state of origin), but can live as tourists, commuters or colonials, immune from any formal demands of integration into the host community or, in many cases, requirements to register with authorities. These are trends that invite us to reflect critically on the analytical and methodological tools at our disposal across the disciplines concerned with the movement of people. With reference predominantly to the United Kingdom, the biggest of the EU's English-speaking member states and host to growing numbers of EU migrants, and in comparison with France, this paper critically compares the discourses of migration emanating from the host society, and evaluates their contribution to a contemporary understanding of who moves where, how and why within the EU's expanding borders, and with what significance for European integration.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This paper will explore several schools of international labor migration thought including push-pull models, dual labor market, world systems, and globalization theory. Following the framework introduced by Brody (2002), I will argue that the globalizat

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This paper examines the causes of, and motives for, secondary (two-step) migration from one industrial country to another, focusing on West Indian and South Asian migratory flows from the U.K. to the U.S. in comparison with Latin American re-migration from Japan to the U.S. Why do they re-migrate from Japan or U.K. to the U.S., and who does? Based on in-depth interviews with second migrants and comparative survey research, I analyze how secondary migration relates to immigrants’ integration patterns in each country. I argue that the causes of secondary migration are rooted in immigrants’ racial/ethnic integration and (perceived) occupational opportunities. Also, second migrants are more likely than primary migrants to possess high levels of human capital.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Migration from neighboring countries has increasingly been at the center of political and academic discussions in the Southern Cone. In Chile, migratory flows, while modest compared to the extensity of flows to the north, have doubled in numbers in just over a decade. Our research examines the dynamics of this south to south migration in order to shed light onto migratory practices crafting transnational communities particular to this site -where geographical nearness and a commonality of language and culture help nuance the formation of transnational identities- and the challenges posed to migrants’ integration and citizenship. We compare Peruvian migrants to Argentinean and Ecuadorian -the three largest migrant groups in Chile- to highlight structural factors in the receiving Chilean society that merge with migrants' social and human capital that help shape particular migratory experiences and levels of social exclusion. We suggest that different forms of social stratification -both, recreated from migrants' society of origin and also novel forms emerging in the host society- will greatly determine migrants' life chances and integration.