Internal Migration in the Developed World: Are We Becoming Less Mobile? – Tony Champion, Thomas Cooke and Ian Shuttleworth (Eds.)

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Editor(s): Tony Champion, Thomas Cooke and Ian Shuttleworth

Publisher: Routledge

Year of Publication: 2017

Print Length: 306 pages

Genre: Non-Fiction / Migration & Refugee Studies

Area: Australia, Germany, Italy , Japan , Sweden , The United Kingdom (UK), The United States of America (USA)

Topic: Development, Future Scenarios, Globalization, Internally Displaced Person (IDP), Migration, Mobility & Immobility

The frequency with which people move home has important implications for national economic performance and the well-being of individuals and families. Much contemporary social and migration theory posits that the world is becoming more mobile, leading to the recent ‘mobilities turn’ within the social sciences. Yet, there is mounting evidence to suggest that this may not be true of all types of mobility, nor apply equally to all geographical contexts. For example, it is now clear that internal migration rates have been falling in the USA since at least the 1980s. To what extent might this trend be true of other developed countries?

Drawing on detailed empirical literature, Internal Migration in the Developed World examines the long-term trends in internal migration in a variety of more advanced countries to explore the factors that underpin these changes. Using case studies of the USA, UK, Australia, Japan, Sweden, Germany and Italy, this pioneering book presents a critical assessment of the extent to which global structural forces, as opposed to national context, influence internal migration in the Global North.

Internal Migration in the Developed World fills the void in this neglected aspect of migration studies and will appeal to a wide disciplinary audience of researchers and students working in Geography, Migration Studies, Population Studies and Development Studies.

List of figures
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List of contributors
The book and the series
Book editors’ preface

PART I
Setting the scene
1 Introduction: a more mobile world, or not? – Tony Champion, Thomas Cooke and Ian Shuttleworth
2 Understanding the drivers of internal migration – Anne Green
3 Studying internal migration in a cross-national context – John Stillwell, Martin Bell and Ian Shuttleworth
4 Global trends in internal migration – Matin Bell , Elin Charles-Edwards, Aude Bernard and Phillipp Ueffing

PART II
In-depth country analyses
5 United States: cohort effects on the long-term decline in migration rates – Thomas Cooke
6 United Kingdom: temporal change in internal migration – Nik lomax and John Stillwell
7 Australia: the long-run decline in internal migration intensities – Martin Bell , Tom Willson, Elin Charles-Edwards and Phillip Ueffing
8 Japan: internal migration trends and processes since the 1950s – Tony Fielding
9 Sweden: internal migration in a high-migration Nordic country – Ian Shuttleworth, John Osth and Thomas Niedomsyl
10 Germany: internal migration within a changing nation – Nikola Sander
11 Italy: internal migration in a low-mobility country – Corrado Bonifazi, Frank Heins and Enrico Tucci

PART III
Commentary and synthesis
12 Internal migration: what does the future hold? – William H. Frey
13 Sedentary no longer seems apposite: internal migration in an
era of mobilities – Keith Halfacree
14 Conclusions and reflections – Tony Champion, Ian Shuttleworth and Thomas Cooke

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Tony Champion is Emeritus Professor of Population Geography at Newcastle University UK. His research interests include migration and its impact on population distribution in the Developed World, with particular reference to counter-urbanisation and city resurgence. He was President of the British Society for Population Studies in 2013-2015.

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Thomas Cooke is a population and urban geographer and Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Connecticut, USA. His research focuses on internal migration decline in the United States, the spatial distribution of metropolitan poverty and the family dimension of migration behaviour. He is currently an Editor of Urban Geography.

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Ian Shuttleworth is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. His research interests include migration, labour market mobility, and social segregation. He also has an interest in divided societies with a special focus on Northern Ireland. He is currently director of the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study Research Support Unit.

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Internal Migration in the Developed World: Are We Becoming Less Mobile? – Tony Champion, Thomas Cooke and Ian Shuttleworth (Eds.)

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