Family Migration

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ID7076367
AuthorsDarren P Smith, Darren Smith (0000-0003-0775-1221, corresponding author)
Year2017
Pages1-4
Publication date2017-09-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeOTHER
VenueThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosf015
OpenAlexW4214519206
ISBN9781405165518
LanguageEN
References cited15

Since the late 1970s the topic of family migration has increasingly been examined by sociologists, geographers, economists, and demographers. Studies of family migration have clearly become a wide‐ranging, interdisciplinary endeavor, with discussions cross‐cutting the social sciences. Although family migration occurs at many geographic scales, from the neighborhood to the global, academic discourses within the developed world have tended to focus on the movement of family units over long distances at a subnational level. Researchers have argued, for example, that the “family” has been lost from accounts of population movements between European states or across wider international boundaries. In addition, there is limited interchange between accounts of family movements within the developed and developing world, with the latter often being absorbed within wider development studies

Economic geography · Focus (optics · Geography · Movement (music · Political science · Population · Regional science · Sociology · Demography · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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