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Title: Internal Migration and Education: A Cross-National Comparison
Citation Type: Miscellaneous
Publication Year: 2018
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Abstract: Internal migration has now replaced fertility and mortality as the leading agent of demographic change in most countries, and it is the main process shaping patterns of human settlement within and between countries. Migration is widely acknowledged to be integral to the process of human development as it plays a significant role in enhancing educational outcomes. At regional and national levels, internal migration underpins the efficient functioning of the economy by bringing knowledge and skills to the locations where they are needed. At an individual level, migration is essential to economic and social well-being by allowing individuals to pursue their goals and aspirations, including pursuing further study. It is the multi-dimensional nature of migration that underlines its significance in the process of human development. Unlike other demographic events, such as birth and death, migration is a repetitive process involving varying distance, duration, origins and destinations. Human mobility extends in the spatial domain from local travel to international migration, and in the temporal dimension from short-term stays to permanent relocations. Classification and measurement of such phenomena is inevitably complex (Bell et al., 2002), which has severely hindered progress in comparative research, with very few large-scale cross-national comparisons of migration. In recent years, however, there have been significant methodological advances (Courgeau, Muhidin, & Bell, 2013; Rees et al., 2016) and the emergence of global repositories of internal migration data (Bell, Bernard, Ueffing, & Charles-Edwards, 2014; Minnesota Population Center, 2011), which has given rise to a series of innovative papers under the umbrella of the Internal Migration Around the GlobE (IMAGE) project1 . This work has made significant headway toward quantifying and understanding the extent of cross-national variations in levels of migration (Bell et al., 2015a), age patterns (Bernard, Bell, & Charles-Edwards, 2014b), distance moved (Stillwell et al., 2016) and population redistribution (Rees et al., 2016), but education and its relationship with migration have not been explicitly considered.
Url: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1812/1812.08913.pdf
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Authors: Bernard, Aude; Bell, Martin; Cooper, Jim
Publisher: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Data Collections: IPUMS International
Topics: Education, Migration and Immigration, Other
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