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Footprints of Regional Science The Voice of Regional Science Karima Kourtit Bruce Newbold Peter Nijkamp Mark Partridge Editors The Economic Geography of Cross-Border Migration Footprints of Regional Science Editors-in-Chief Peter Nijkamp, Open University, Heerlen, The Netherlands; Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania Karima Kourtit, Open University, Heerlen, The Netherlands; Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania Kingsley E. Haynes, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, Arlington, VA, USA Subseries: The Voice of Regional Science Series Editors Bruce Newbold, School of Geography and Earth Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada Vicente Royuela , University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Mia Wahlström, Tyréns (Sweden), Gustavsberg, Sweden Subseries: Great Minds in Regional Science Series Editors Peter Batey, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK David Plane, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA FootprintsofRegionalScience TheRegionalScienceAcademy(TRSA)isanimportantgrowthpointforRegionalScience.Sinceearly 2016,ahighlysuccessfulseriesofAcademysessionshasbeenheldatlocationsthroughouttheworld, focusingonTheVoiceofRegionalScience(generalandstrategicreflectionsonnewtopicsinregional science)andGreatMindsinRegionalScience(presentingineachcaseacontemporaneousviewonthe scientific relevance of a great thinker in regional science). 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Moreinformationaboutthissubseriesathttp://www.springer.com/series/16562 Karima Kourtit Bruce Newbold (cid:129) (cid:129) Peter Nijkamp Mark Partridge (cid:129) Editors The Economic Geography of Cross-Border Migration 123 Editors KarimaKourtit Bruce Newbold Jheronimus Academy of DataScience McMaster University ‘S-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant Hamilton, ON,Canada TheNetherlands Mark Partridge PeterNijkamp TheOhio State University Jheronimus Academy of DataScience Columbus, OH,USA ‘S-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant TheNetherlands ISSN 2662-9623 ISSN 2662-9631 (electronic) Footprints of RegionalScience ISSN 2662-9704 ISSN 2662-9712 (electronic) TheVoice of RegionalScience ISBN978-3-030-48290-9 ISBN978-3-030-48291-6 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48291-6 ©TheEditor(s)(ifapplicable)andTheAuthor(s),underexclusivelicensetoSpringerNature SwitzerlandAG2021 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsaresolelyandexclusivelylicensedbythePublisher,whether thewholeorpartofthematerialisconcerned,specificallytherightsoftranslation,reprinting,reuseof illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmissionorinformationstorageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilar ordissimilarmethodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. 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ThisSpringerimprintispublishedbytheregisteredcompanySpringerNatureSwitzerlandAG Theregisteredcompanyaddressis:Gewerbestrasse11,6330Cham,Switzerland Contents Part I Conceptual and Historical Contributions 1 Geography of Migration: An Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Karima Kourtit, Bruce Newbold, Peter Nijkamp, Mark Partridge, and Oudom Hean 2 The “Invasion Peril” in Light of the Topodynamic Theory, and Some Recent Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Luc-Normand Tellier and Guillaume Marois 3 Walls and Fences: A Journey Through History and Economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Victoria Vernon and Klaus F. Zimmermann 4 The Demography of Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 James Raymer and James O’Donnell Part II International Migration 5 Immigration Within a US Context: A Drain or Driver of Economic Development?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Steven Deller, Tessa Conroy, and Matthew Kures 6 Opportunity Seeking Migration in the United States . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Thomas A. Knapp and Nancy E. White 7 Return, Circular, and Onward Migration Decisions in a Knowledge Society. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Amelie F. Constant 8 The Labour Market Integration of Humanitarian Migrants in OECD Countries: An Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Pieter Bevelander and Nahikari Irastorza v vi Contents 9 Cross-Border Labour Mobility in Europe: Migration Versus Commuting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Angela Parenti and Cristina Tealdi 10 The Role of Subjective Wellbeing in Cross-Border Migration . . . . 217 Arthur Grimes and Dennis Wesselbaum Part III Migration Effects on Destination Areas 11 Migration and Human Capital: The Role of Education in Interregional Migration: The Australian Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Daniel Crown, Jonathan Corcoran, and Alessandra Faggian 12 Effects of Immigration on Local Housing Markets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 William Cochrane and Jacques Poot 13 The Urban Geography of Segregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 K. Bruce Newbold 14 Complementarities Between Native and Immigrant Workers in Italy by Sector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 Ivan Etzo, Carla Massidda, and Romano Piras 15 A New Focus on Migration Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 Bernadette N. Kumar and Allan Krasnik 16 The General and the Task-Specific Human Capital of Migrants: Host Country Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357 Maryna Tverdostup and Tiiu Paas 17 Entrepreneurial Journeys of Syrian Refugees in Groningen, A Liminal Story? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379 Christian de Kraker, Alexander Grit, and Sander Vroom Part IV Migration Effects on Sending Areas 18 The Importance of Political and Economic Institutions to the Decisions of International Migrants to Return to Their Home Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403 Ngoc Thi Minh Tran, Michael P. Cameron, and Jacques Poot 19 The Impact of Emigration on Source Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421 Sucharita Ghosh and Amanda Weinstein 20 Economic Effects of Remittances on Migrants’ Country of Origin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449 Barış Alpaslan, Aysegul Kayaoglu, Jürgen Meckl, Joaquín Naval, Michaella Vanore, and Thomas H.W. Ziesemer Contents vii 21 The Impact of Immigration on Foreign Market Access: A Panel Analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485 Murat Genç and Dennis Wesselbaum 22 Unskilled Migration with Remittance and Welfare Analysis. . . . . . 501 Li-Wen Hung and Shin-Kun Peng Part V Migration and Policy 23 Migration, Depressed Regions, and Place-Based Policy. . . . . . . . . . 529 Peter V. Schaeffer 24 The Relationship Between Cultural Differences and Migration: Does Cultural Dilemma Matter?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543 Miriam Marcén and Marina Morales 25 Migration in a Post-global Era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573 Tony Fielding Part I Conceptual and Historical Contributions Chapter 1 Geography of Migration: An Introduction KarimaKourtit,BruceNewbold,PeterNijkamp,MarkPartridge, andOudomHean 1.1 SettingtheScene Weliveinthe“ageofmigration.”Migrationcantakedifferentforms:local,domestic, orcross-border(regionalorinternational).Inrecentyears,aconsiderableamountof attention has been directed to the socio-economic aspects of cross-border (interre- gionalandinternational)migration(see,e.g.,Stoughetal.2018).IntheHandbook onthe“EconomicsofInternationalMigration”(ChiswickandMiller2015),wefind many interesting economic contributions on migration phenomena, mainly from a macro-ormeso-economicangle.Itshouldberecognized,however,thatmigrationis notonlyaneconomicordemographicphenomenon,butitalsohascleargeograph- ical dimensions in terms of socio-economic drivers of, or impacts on, places of originordestination.Inotherwords,theeconomicgeographyofcontemporaneous migrationmovements,inrelationtothecharacteristicsofplacesoforiginanddesti- nation,alsodeservesfull-scaleattention.Sincemodern—inparticular,large—cities andmetropolitanareasactmainlyasattractorsoftheserisingmigrationflows,itis certainlypertinenttofocusregionalscienceandeconomic-geographicalresearchon currentmigration,inparticular,onurbanagglomerations;citiesappeartoturninto local diaspora economies (see Tranos et al. 2015). The geographical dimensions B K.Kourtit( )·P.Nijkamp OpenUniversity,Heerlen,TheNetherlands e-mail:[email protected] P.Nijkamp e-mail:[email protected] B.Newbold McMasterUniversity,Hamilton,ON,Canada e-mail:[email protected] M.Partridge·O.Hean TheOhioStateUniversity,Columbus,OH,USA e-mail:[email protected] ©TheAuthor(s),underexclusivelicensetoSpringerNatureSwitzerlandAG2021 3 K.Kourtitetal.(eds.),TheEconomicGeographyofCross-BorderMigration, FootprintsofRegionalScience,https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48291-6_1
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