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1. Retirement Migration

   Paradoxes of Ageing

   By Caroline Oliver

   Series: Routledge Research in Population and Migration

   The book is the first ethnographic study of international retirement migration and offers a sometimes surprising picture of the potentials, seductions and limitations of the lifestyles. People envision retirement as freedom from responsibilities through shedding the restrictive shackles of their...

   Published February 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Global Health Care Chain

   From the Pacific to the World

   By John Connell

   Series: Routledge Research in Population and Migration

   For more than a quarter of a century there has been significant international migration of skilled health workers, but in the last decades, with critical changes in both sending and receiving countries, few parts of the world are now unaffected by the consequences of the migration of health workers...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
3. Asian Migrants and European Labour Markets

   Patterns and Processes of Immigrant Labour Market Insertion in Europe

   Edited by Ernst Spaan, Felicitas Hillmann, Ton van Naerssen

   Series: Routledge Research in Population and Migration

   In an era of globalization and demographic transition international migration has become an important issue for European governments. The past decades have seen an increasing and diversifying flow of migrants from different parts of the world, including many from South, Southeast and East Asia. It...

   Published September 18th 2012 by Routledge
4. Migration in Comparative Perspective

   Caribbean Communities in Britain and France

   By Margaret Byron, Stéphanie Condon

   Series: Routledge Research in Population and Migration

   This book presents a comparative perspective on post-war Caribbean migration to Britain and France. Both migrations were responses to the link between former colonies and colonial powers. However, the movements of labor occurred within separately and differently evolving political contexts,...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
5. The International Migration of Health Workers

   Edited by John Connell

   Series: Routledge Research in Population and Migration

   This volume provides the first detailed overview of the growing phenomenon of the international migration of skilled health workers. The contributors focus on who migrates, why they migrate, what the outcomes are for them and their extended families, what their experiences in the workforce are, and...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
6. Refugees, Recent Migrants and Employment

   Challenging Barriers and Exploring Pathways

   Edited by Sonia McKay

   Series: Routledge Research in Population and Migration

   Upheavals in vast areas of the world have led to a growing number of international refugees, a significant proportion of which have made their way to the West. At the same time, economic and social pressures, together with skills and labour shortages, have encouraged the migration for work of...

   Published August 15th 2011 by Routledge
7. Migration and Populations in China

   Moving Peoples and Creating Change

   By Caroline Hoy

   Series: Routledge Research in Population and Migration

   The internal migration of its population is the most dynamic demographic phenomenon in China today. Investigating this, Caroline Hoy's detailed book integrates description and analysis, and incorporates a wide range of sources (both Chinese and English), from census and...

   Published October 14th 2007 by Routledge
8. Migration and Health in Asia

   Edited by Santosh Jatrana, Mika Toyota, Brenda S. A. Yeoh

   Series: Routledge Research in Population and Migration

   The processes of migration and health are inextricably linked in complex ways, with migration impacting on the mental and physical health of individuals and communities. Health itself can be a motivation for moving or a reason for staying, and migration can have implications on the health of those...

   Published July 14th 2005 by Routledge
9. Migration and Health

   By Paul Boyle

   Series: Routledge Research in Population and Migration

   With an increasing number of refugees crossing country borders in search of a new life or escape from the torments of their homeland, migration is a topical issue that is set to grow. Written by well-known author Paul Boyle, this work constitutes the first integrated book covering the...

   Published December 14th 2004 by Routledge
10. Population Mobility and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia and North America

    Edited by Martin Bell, John Taylor

    Series: Routledge Research in Population and Migration

    This book draws together relevant research findings to produce the first comprehensive overview of Indigenous peoples' mobility. Chapters draw from a range of disciplinary sources, and from a diversity of regions and nation-states. Within nations, mobility is the key determinant of local population...

    Published December 24th 2003 by Routledge