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The Economic Geography of Cross-Border Migration

  • Presents a collection of high-quality, authoritative scientific contributions on the local and regional impacts of cross-border migration
  • Written by a carefully selected group of recognized migration experts from around the globe
  • Provides a comprehensive discussion of the policy dimensions of cross-border migration

Part of the book series: Footprints of Regional Science (FRS)

Part of the book sub series: The Voice of Regional Science (VRS)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
  2. Conceptual and Historical Contributions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Geography of Migration: An Introduction

      • Karima Kourtit, Bruce Newbold, Peter Nijkamp, Mark Partridge, Oudom Hean
      Pages 3-13
    3. Walls and Fences: A Journey Through History and Economics

      • Victoria Vernon, Klaus F. Zimmermann
      Pages 33-54
    4. The Demography of Migration

      • James Raymer, James O’Donnell
      Pages 55-75
  3. International Migration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
    2. Immigration Within a US Context: A Drain or Driver of Economic Development?

      • Steven Deller, Tessa Conroy, Matthew Kures
      Pages 79-107
    3. Opportunity Seeking Migration in the United States

      • Thomas A. Knapp, Nancy E. White
      Pages 109-132
    4. Cross-Border Labour Mobility in Europe: Migration Versus Commuting

      • Angela Parenti, Cristina Tealdi
      Pages 185-215
    5. The Role of Subjective Wellbeing in Cross-Border Migration

      • Arthur Grimes, Dennis Wesselbaum
      Pages 217-243
  4. Migration Effects on Destination Areas

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245
    2. Migration and Human Capital: The Role of Education in Interregional Migration: The Australian Case

      • Daniel Crown, Jonathan Corcoran, Alessandra Faggian
      Pages 247-267
    3. Effects of Immigration on Local Housing Markets

      • William Cochrane, Jacques Poot
      Pages 269-292
    4. The Urban Geography of Segregation

      • K. Bruce Newbold
      Pages 293-306
    5. Complementarities Between Native and Immigrant Workers in Italy by Sector

      • Ivan Etzo, Carla Massidda, Romano Piras
      Pages 307-333
    6. A New Focus on Migration Health

      • Bernadette N. Kumar, Allan Krasnik
      Pages 335-355

About this book

This handbook presents a collection of high-quality, authoritative scientific contributions on cross-border migration, written by a carefully selected group of recognized migration experts from around the globe. In recent years, cross-border migration has become an important and intriguing issue, from both a scientific and policy perspective. In the ‘age of migration’, the volume of cross-border movements of people continues to rise, while the nature of migration flows – in terms of the determinants, length of stay, effects on the sending and host countries, and legal status of migrants – is changing dramatically.

Based on a detailed economic-geographical analysis, this handbook studies the motives for cross-border migration, the socio-economic implications for sending countries and regions, the locational choice determinants for cross-border migrants, and the manifold economic-geographic consequences for host countries and regions. Given the complexity of migration decisions and their local or regional impacts, a systematic typology of migrants (motives, legal status, level of education, gender, age, singles or families, etc.) is provided, together with an assessment of push factors in the place of origin and pull factors at the destination. On the basis of a solid analytical framework and reliable empirical evidence, it examines the impacts of emigration for sending areas and of immigration for receiving areas, and provides a comprehensive discussion of the policy dimensions of cross-border migration.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Jheronimus Academy of Data Science, 'S-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

    Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp

  • McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

    Bruce Newbold

  • The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

    Mark Partridge

About the editors

Karima Kourtit is leader of the Department of Smart Cities at the Jheronimus Academy of Data Science (JADS), ’s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands: an inter-university research and education centre jointly operated by Eindhoven University of Technology and Tilburg University, the Netherlands. She has worked at the Center for the Future of Places (CFP) at the Department of Urban Planning and Environment, the School of Architecture and Built Environment, at the KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and at Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU), Poznan, Poland.

K. Bruce Newbold is a professor of geography at McMaster University, where he received his PhD in 1994. He taught at the University of Illinois (1994–2000) before returning to McMaster in 2000. He has held guest scholar positions at the University of California San Diego’s Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (CCIS) and at the University of Glasgow’s Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, where he held a Journal of Urban Studies Fellowship. He is currently the Director of the School of Geography & Earth Sciences at McMaster.

Peter Nijkamp is an emeritus professor of regional and urban economics and economic geography at the VU University, and is affiliated with the Jheronimus Academy of Data Science (JADS), ‘s-Hertogenbosch (the Netherlands), the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm (Sweden) and A. Mickiewicz University, Poznan (Poland). He serves on the editorial/advisory boards of more than 30 journals. According to the RePec list he is one of the top 30 most well known economists in the world.

Mark Partridge is the C. William Swank Chair of Rural-Urban Policy at The Ohio State University, USA, and a professor at the AED Economics Department. He is also an economic consultant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and an adjunct professor at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. He has previously served as the Canada Research Chair in the New Rural Economy at the University of Saskatchewan. Professor Partridge has published over 125 peer-reviewed journal papers. His work has been ranked number one in regional science and among the top 1000 economists in the world.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Economic Geography of Cross-Border Migration

  • Editors: Karima Kourtit, Bruce Newbold, Peter Nijkamp, Mark Partridge

  • Series Title: Footprints of Regional Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48291-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48290-9Published: 08 December 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48293-0Published: 09 December 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-48291-6Published: 07 December 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2662-9623

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-9631

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 581

  • Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 53 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Regional/Spatial Science, Economic Geography, Human Geography, Migration, Demography

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