Leaving to Get Ahead

Assessing the Relationship between Mobility and Inequality in Peruvian Migration

Bibliographic Data

ID4501039
AuthorsAyumi Takenaka (Bryn Mawr College, Center for the Study of Inequality and Social Stratification, Tohoku University), Karen A Pren (0000-0001-7724-8192, Mexican Migration Project/Latin American Migration Project in the Office of Population Research at Princeton University)
Year2010
Volume37
Issue5
Pages29-49
Publication date2010-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x10379106
PMID20824949
OpenAlexW2092038686
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited17

Analysis of the impact of international migration on the socioeconomic conditions of migrants and their families in Peru, using data from the Latin American Migration Project, suggests that international migration contributes to individuals' socioeconomic well-being. While those who migrate tend to come from relatively privileged backgrounds in the first place, they gain further relative economic advantage by moving out of the country. A possible implication of this is that the growing international migration observed today is likely to exacerbate rather than ameliorate the already uneven distribution of income and rigid socioeconomic hierarchy in Peru

Demographic economics · Developing country · Development economics · Distribution (mathematics) · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Hierarchy · Income distribution · Inequality · Internal migration · Latin Americans · Political science · Population · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Demography · Employment and Welfare Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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