Negotiating Social Membership in the Contemporary World

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ID2960520
AutoresJ Hagan (0000-0002-4262-9822)
Año2006
Volumen85
Número2
Páginas631-642
Fecha de publicación2006-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Forces (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0037-7732 • E-ISSN: 1534-7605
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1353/sof.2007.0005
OpenAlexW1971424384
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas22

One of the defining characteristics of the late 20th and early 21st centuries is the increasing importance of international migration, an epoch Castles and Miller term the “age of migration. ” (2003) The precise size of the international migrant population is unknown. Much of this movement – such as unauthorized and other irregular flows – is not recorded in official statistics. Nonetheless, by all accounts international movements have soared in recent decades, especially since the 1970s, with the acceleration of cross-border flows of trade, investment, ideas and people – key features of globalization (Castles and Miller 2003). Worldwide, between 1965 and 2000, the number of migrants is estimated to have doubled, from 75 to 150 million (International Organization for Migration 2000). As in the past, many of today’s international migrants move toward areas of economic opportunity. From the mid-19th century until World War II, large flows left Europe for one of four settlement areas: North and South America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. After World War II, and especially since the end of the Cold War in the 1980s, the origin and direction of migration flows have

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