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Emigration
About: Emigration is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5434 publications have been published within this topic receiving 70717 citations.
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1 Oct 1985
TL;DR: In many respects the present situation in Germany in regard to immigration and immigrants is unprecedented as mentioned in this paper, where a great number of immigrant families are preparing for a permanent stay and some form of "integration"; moreover, easing the tension between integration and cultural autonomy is being considered on a political level.
Abstract: Immigration and immigration policy In many respects the present situation in Germany in regard to immigration and immigrants is unprecedented. A great number of immigrant families are preparing for a permanent stay and some form of “integration”; moreover, easing the tension between integration and cultural autonomy is being considered on a political level. The situation now differs fundamentally from that of the past, when foreign workers were either clearly defined as seasonal workers and subjected to rigid Germanization during their stay (and in the Second World War forced into war production) or else used as an easily transferable labor pool to compensate for manpower shortages in certain branches of the economy. Yet policymakers have found it difficult to grasp this difference and to act accordingly, which is why the current reorientation of immigration policy has been so difficult. To understand the novelty of the present situation and to appreciate the obstacles faced in changing from a “guestworker” policy to an “immigration” policy, one must begin by examining the varied history of population movements and foreign labor migration into the German Reich and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). Until 1885 Germany was mainly an emigration country (Armengand 1971:163fT). Germans emigrated primarily to the United States and, to a lesser extent, to Canada, Australia, and South America. A number of Germans settled down to work as administrators and merchants or founded new settlements in the Baltic, Poland, and Russia.
973 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of emigration from Cape Verde, the authors examined how aspirations are formed in the interplay between people's individual characteristics and their common emigration environment and investigated how potential migrants' ability to migrate is determined in their encounter with the immigration interface.
Abstract: Our times are characterised by involuntary immobility as much as by large migration flows. The sheer number of people wishing to migrate but not being able to do so indicates that migration must be analysed in the light of restrictive immigration policies. This article suggests that insights can be gained by addressing the aspiration and ability to migrate separately. On the basis of a case study of emigration from Cape Verde, the article first examines how aspirations are formed in the interplay between people's individual characteristics and their common emigration environment. It then proceeds to investigate how potential migrants' ability to migrate is determined in their encounter with the immigration interface. This involves a series of barriers and constraints which each potential migrant is differently equipped to overcome. The aspiration/ability model is proposed as a framework for analyses of migration and non-migration at a time when mobility itself has become an important stratifying factor.
782 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a natural experiment to study the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of native Israelis, and found a significant positive correlation between the former presence of the immigrants in an occupation in the former Soviet Union and their presence in that occupation in Israel.
Abstract: Mass migration from the former Soviet Union increased the Israeli population by 12% in the first half of the 1990s. This exodus was precipitated by the lifting of emigration restrictions in an unstable USSR and by the open immigration policy of Israel toward Soviet Jews, who faced more restrictive entry policies elsewhere. I use this natural experiment to study the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of native Israelis. OLS yields significant reductions in wages and small reductions in employment. However, OLS is biased if the distribution of immigrants across occupations in Israel was not exogenous to relative wage and employment conditions. I instrument for the entry of Russians into an occupation in Israel, using information on their former occupations in the USSR. There is a significant positive correlation between the former presence of the immigrants in an occupation in the USSR and their presence in that occupation in Israel. But the previous occupational choices of Russians abroad were independent of Israeli wage and employment growth subsequent to their migration. IV estimates indicate that immigration did not have an adverse impact on native Israeli labor market outcomes.
750 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, a case study of emigration from Cape Verde, the authors examined how aspirations are formed in the interplay between people's individual characteristics and their common emigration environment and investigated how potential migrants' ability to migrate is determined in their encounter with the immigration interface.
Abstract: Our times are characterised by involuntary immobility as much as by large migration flows. The sheer number of people wishing to migrate but not being able to do so indicates that migration must be analysed in the light of restrictive immigration policies. This article suggests that insights can be gained by addressing the aspiration and ability to migrate separately. On the basis of a case study of emigration from Cape Verde, the article first examines how aspirations are formed in the interplay between people’s individual characteristics and their common emigration environment. It then proceeds to investigate how potential migrants’ ability to migrate is determined in their encounter with the immigration interface. This involves a series of barriers and constraints which each potential migrant is differently equipped to overcome. The aspiration/ability model is proposed as a framework for analyses of migration and non-migration at a time when mobility itself has become an important stratifying factor.
712 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of social networks in terms of location-specific social capital is discussed and the influence of social capital on migration decision-making and chain migration processes is discussed.
Abstract: Drawing on the rational choice approach and the economic sociology of migration, this article discusses the role of social networks in terms of location-specific social capital. It discusses relations between sociological and economic aspects of migration and outlines the influence of social capital on migration decision-making and chain migration processes. There have been various attempts to measure these effects through empirical migration research, and this article focuses on two such studies. The first example concerns an investigation of migration intentions among Bulgarians in the 2001 Bulgarian census. The second is return migration in the household context of Italian migrants in Germany, based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The main finding is that social capital at the place of destination has positive impacts on emigration intentions and return migration, whereas social capital at the place of residence has negative impacts on return migration.
700 citations
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