Overview
- Provides a new perspective on Sub-Saharan migration
- Includes new views on return migration, circulation and transnational practices
- A comparative study resulting from the MAFE project with an introduction by Douglas Massey
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This volume examines migration between Africa and Europe, rather than just from Africa to Europe. Based on a unique socio-demographic survey carried out both in origin and destination countries (MAFE survey), it argues that return migration, circulation, and transnational practices are significant. Policy design must also take these factors into account.
Comparing in a systematic way three flows of African migrants (from Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana and Senegal), this study offers a new view on the patterns, determinants, and family and economic effects of migration. By comparing six European countries (Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK), it shows that the dynamics of migration differ greatly in new vs. old destination countries.
Based on a statistical analysis of life histories, this study provides a dynamic view of migration that will help readers better understand current trends as well as future trajectories. It will appeal to researchers, academics, practitioners, and others interested in taking a deeper look in (im)migration issues.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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A Comparative Approach of African Migration
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Front Matter
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr Cris Beauchemin is researcher at INED and associate professor at the department of demography of the University of Montreal. He holds his PhD from the University Paris 8. Prior to joining INED, he spent 3 years at the University of Montreal (Demography Department). Most of his research is about migration and connections between places of origin and destination. Covering both domestic and international migration, especially in the African context, his works relate to trends of migration, migrants’ investments, return migration, transnational families, integration and transnationalism... In the last decade, he was responsible of projects involving large scale surveys: the Migration between Africa and Europe project (MAFE) and the Trajectories and origin survey in France (TeO).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Migration between Africa and Europe
Editors: Cris Beauchemin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69569-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-69568-6Published: 14 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09897-1Published: 16 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-69569-3Published: 01 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 453
Number of Illustrations: 143 b/w illustrations
Topics: Migration, Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Demography, Human Geography