Migration in Britain
Subtitle: paradoxes of the present, prospects for the future
By: Tony Fielding
Publisher: Edward Elgar; Elgar Publishing, Incorporated, Edward; Edward Elgar Pub
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cheltenham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9781781004197
Subjects: Internal Migration
Description: "Those who need to migrate the most - perhaps due to low paid or insecure jobs - tend to actually migrate the least, while those who need to migrate the least - for example those who have secure, well-paid jobs - tend to actually migrate the most. This is one of the many paradoxes about internal migration in Britain that are explored in this topical and timely book by Tony Fielding.  Migration in Britain takes a fresh look at the patterns of migration at both the regional and local levels and develops new theoretical frameworks and novel methods to explain these patterns. It anticipates British society and its internal migration flows fifty years hence in the absence of climate change, and comes to judgments about how and in what ways these migration flows might be affected by climate change.  Developing new approaches to explain migration patterns, this book will appeal to academics, researchers, postgraduate and undergraduate students of population migration, as well as businesses concerned with housing and utilities. Anyone with a general interest in migration issues including the impacts of, and adaptation to, climate change, will find much to interest them in this insightful book."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-193) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1: UK internal migration patterns. Migration: concepts, methods and values ; Inter-regional migration ; A more detailed regional, sub-regional (country-level) and occasionally city-level analysis.; title: Part 2: UK internal migration: processes and trends. Economic drivers of internal migration ; Social, demographic and political drivers of migration ; Environmental drivers of migration ; The decision to migrate ; Future migration trends in the absence of environmental change.; title: Part 3: UK international migration: impacts of environmental change. Impacts of environmental change on UK internal migration ; Implications for policy.