Life course perspectives on international migration

The number of immigrants in Japan is increasing rapidly and almost doubled in these 20 years after the reform of the Immigration Control Law in 1989. Therefore there is a growing necessity for such an analysis of demographic impacts of migration in Japan, as in the new "countries of immigrants" such as Italy and Spain etc.
There are two research questions in this study. 1)Is fertility of immigrant women in Japan disrupted due to international migration? 2)Is their fertility above/below that of native women?
A data-set used in this study is all the samples of foreigners from the Japanese population census (year of 2000).Fertility is estimated by own-children method and its validity is checked by multivariate analysis.
As a result, the present study revealed that immigrant women’s fertility in Japan is disrupted by migration among the people coming from less developed countries than Japan. In addition, we can also ascertain a catch-up effect soon after migration. The level of fertility is lower than the Japanese women in many nationalities; however it will often increase to the level higher than the Japanese women in longer term. Moreover, these finding are ascertained by multivariate analysis. The next challenge is to ascertain validity of these findings in longer term, and compare them to other countries.

This paper intends to gain a better understanding of why migrants remit, what characteristics they have, which of these characteristics influence (and in what sense) their remittance behaviours, and how their behaviours evolve with the passage of time since migration. In particular, we aim to test the so-called “remittance decay hypothesis”, according to which the eventual integration of migrants in the country of destination and the gradual loosening of ties with the country of origin would lead to a progressive reduction in their need and desire to remit. In practice, the evolution of the migration project towards stabilisation in the host country, rather than return, would make migrants more prone to invest socially and economically in the country of destination, while reducing their emotional and economic commitment to the family left behind. The analysis is based on data from the 2009 “Italian Statistics on Income and Living Conditions of Households with Foreigners”, covering over 6,000 households with at least one foreign member. This survey provides detailed information on foreigners’ characteristics, including reason to move to Italy and return plans, and allows us also to consider their family composition both in Italy and in the country of origin.

The main objective of this article is to contribute to the discussion of the incorporation of gender studies to population studies. Therefore, it becomes a major demographic variables - migration - intersection that may seek to deepen interdisciplinary studies, seeking to overcome theoretical and methodological challenges through the recent advances both in gender studies, as migration. We seek to discuss international migration in theoretical and methodological framework of gender studies. Thus, the question "how articulate the migration of women and their conditions and what kind of impacts and specificities are observed in this phenomenon?" becomes central.

The transition to adulthood is a complex process that involves the education, employability and family, articulating a system of institutional arrangements and processes of socialization biographical interfering in people's lives from puberty and lead to the acquisition of social positions "(CASAL, 1996: 124 cited VIEIRA, 2009).
The aim of this paper is to present the analysis of discourse, understood as a social practice, from 4 Colombians youth aged 19 to 23 years within the framework of transition to adult life. Individual interviews were conducted with two pairs of sisters who came to the country through the Resettlement Program of UNHCR, We seek to understand how these young people to the forced displacement of their families became projects, dreams and stages of their lives. Finally we intend to demonstrate how the experience of the same process refuge is experienced differently, despite the characteristics belonging to the same social group, also highlighting aspects of individual experiences on the experience of forced displacement.

The present paper examines the trends in net international migration rates (NIMRs) in 22 members of the League of Arab states, during 1980-2025. The study uses medium variant population estimates and projections from the recent revision of the World Population Prospects 2010 – released by the UN on May 3, 2011. For the purpose of the analysis, 22 Arab countries have been classified in four groups, namely, Mashreq, Maghreb, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Least Developed Countries, on the basis of their geographical proximity and socioeconomic characteristics. The magnitude of NIMR (per 1000 of country’s population) and its direction for each Arab state have been presented. Negative sign of NIMRs shows out-migrating country and vice versa. The magnitude and sign of NIMRs have been assumed to give proxy measure of the level of country’s economic development/ underdevelopment since more unskilled and semiskilled labourers out-migrate from economically underdeveloped countries due to less employment opportunities and/or lower wages. The magnitude and direction of NIMRs have been explained in the backdrop of political situation of the country. The study also discusses the effects of high emigrations from working age-groups and soaring in-migrations of 65+ populations on young and old dependency burdens and population ageing.

There have been a number of studies on microeconomic and macroeconomic determinants of migration, but few discussed on the race and religion factors on skilled labour immigration. This paper makes contribution toward filling this void by examining how religion influences the skilled labour immigration flow into Malaysia. Specifically, the sharing of religious cultures enables the formation of exchange networks that can overcome the failure or non-existence of the social and economic institutions for affecting the flow of skilled labours into Malaysia. The determinants of immigration are analysed with pooled cross-country and time series data on skilled immigration into Malaysia from 39 countries during 1998-2004. Results demonstrate clearly the sharing of Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu culture by three major races which are the Malays, Chinese and Indians in Malaysia has a significantly positive influence on the inflow of skilled labour immigrants.