I enjoyed reading the papers by Kenneth Halttgen and Stephan Klasen (H-K) and Andrea Rossi (AR) and learnt a lot from each of them. Together, they provide a valuable survey of the issues related to the extent and impact of migration on children and youth (hereafter C&Y), identify the limitations of existing research and suggest ways forward. The focus of the two papers is on European and South-...

Recent years have seen a blossoming of research on children and young people as migrants in the Southeast Asian context. This article takes the form of a stock-taking exercise of this rapidly growing new field of research. Yet, it also asks “what’s new?” thereby contrasting and comparing contemporary scholarship with earlier work on young people and mobility in the region. The concept of age is...

This position paper for the Princeton/Rockefeller conference “Migrant Youth and Children of Migrants in a Globalized World” offers a tentative framework for organizing research directions on the subject of children and migration. This is informed by several themes that are a part of the position paper by Tienda, Taylor, and Maughan (2007), as well as of the survey papers by Harttgen and Klasen ...

"Within the conceptual framework of the Roy model, this paper provides an empirical analysis of internal migration flows [in the United States] using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. The theoretical approach highlights regional differences in the returns to skills: regions that pay higher returns to skills attract more skilled workers than regions that pay lower returns. O...

This paper is rich but it mostly shows that there is not much information on children and youth in Europe. In chapter 1, it would have been useful to avoid a general discussion of migration and to relate better the types of international migration (such as those presented in table 1) with the situation in which children may find themselves in. Because children are persons below the age of major...

We analyze the impact of climate events on migration among a cohort young adults residing in rural Madagascar. find strong negative drought decision youth to migrate year after adverse weather shock. Household assets and access savings institutions attenuate this impact, consistent with notion that wealth cushion blow shock resources required finance migration. also households report more socia...

This paper examines the extent to which differences in welfare generosity across states lead to interstate migration. Using microdata from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth between 1979 and 1992, we employ a quasi-experimental design that utilizes the categorical eligibility of the welfare system. The “treatment” group consists of all those in the survey who appear eligible to participa...

Based on two years of ethnographic data gathered, including 81 h life-history interviews and 70 participant observation with 10 youth who migrated to the United States from Central America, this paper argues that negative labels often stereotypically depict immigrant experiences are socially imposed prior migration. More specifically, article examines youths’ understanding perceptions ways in w...

The evolution of family farming cannot be analyzed only from the perspective production. Since it is also a kinship unit, farm reveals social tensions that contribute to migration young people, especially for women. This study presents an analysis factors this migratory process, considering youth and gender variables. based on participatory diagnosis, multisectoral interviews surveys in thirty-...