1st Edition

Migration Surveys in Low Income Countries Guidelines for Survey and Questionnaire Design

566 Pages
by Routledge

566 Pages
by Routledge

Migration Surveys in Low Income Countries (1984) is an attempt to encourage the collection of analytically appropriate data that can be used to help in the design of migration-related policies. It looks at the theoretical perspectives that have been used in the study of migration phenomena, and brings out implications for data collections. It discusses issues of primary concern in the design of... Read more

1. General Introduction  2. Theoretical Perspectives on Migration A.S. Oberai and Richard E. Bilsborrow  3. Conceptualising Territorial Mobility Guy Standing  4. Survey Design Richard E. Bilsborrow  5. Sample Design Richard E. Bilsborrow  6. Idenification of Migrants and Collection of Demographic and Social Information in Migration Surveys A.S. Oberai  7. Migration and the Labour Process Guy Standing  8. Income Transfers and Remittances Guy Standing  9. Migration, Production and Technological Change A.S. Oberai  10. Migration, Land and Household Assets  11. The Need for and Design of Community-level Questionnaires Richard E. Bilsborrow  12. Concluding Observations on Implementing a Migration Survey

Biography

Richard E. Bilsborrow, A.S. Oberai and Guy Standing