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Title: Immigration Multiplier: A Method of Measuring the Immigration Process
Citation Type: Conference Paper
Publication Year: 2006
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Abstract: This research has demonstrated that the chain immigration process does exist, and we can measure the multiplier effects by calculating immigration multipliers. With the introduction of the Immigration Multiplier (IM), Immigration Unification Multiplier (IUM) and Immigration Reproduction Multiplier (IRM)), we can clearly differentiate different immigration patterns across different regions. It is also very important to notice that few demographic researches on immigration processes have ever combined the immigration unification process with the immigration reproduction process into one complete immigration model. This research is a first attempt to do so. The new Immigration Multiplier method introduced in this paper has many aspects that other traditional measures do not have. The most important aspects are: measurable (for measuring the chain migration process), complete (for measuring both the immigration unification process as well as the immigrant reproduction process), comparable (for comparing immigration patterns region-by-region, country-by-country, year-by-year), practical (for performing the relatively simple calculations). With this concept and method of the Immigration Multiplier developed in this research, we can now use it to measure the migration chains and its multiplier effects for any immigrant population, and provide the explanations why they are different. Therefore, this method has provided a tool to accomplish the goal of better understanding the chain migration process, and it could be used for further academic research and policy evaluations.
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Authors: Yu, Bin
Conference Name: Population Association of America, 2006
Publisher Location: Los Angeles, CA
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
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