People have always migrated. Recent globalisation dynamics, however, significantly alter the conditions and features of migration. This paper analyses ruralurban interactions as shaped by female labour migrants in a globalising Thailand. The central question is how female migrants in Bangkok constitute space through their relationships with their rural origin and concisely, whether female labou...

Abstract Rural areas are increasingly subject to the effects of telecouplings (socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances) whereby their human natural dynamics linked socioeconomic drivers operating far away, such as growing demand for labor ecosystem services in cities. Although there have been many studies evaluating telecouplings, those were often investigated separately, ho...

Abstract This article investigates the development of rural migration in northern Sweden (1850–1950). During this period, experienced a slower rate urbanisation than rest country. study proposes that decentralised industrialisation (i.e., rural-industrial labour, predominantly timber industry) introduced inertia to process by lowering rural-to-urban migration. Using longitudinal, individual-lev...

Migration and gender studies have focused on economically active heterogeneous couples and traditionally highlight a dominant male role in migration decision-making. The female partner is commonly portrayed as a ‘trailing wife’ or ‘trailing mother’ with the move found to have a negative effect on her employment prospects. Much less is known about if or how the balance of power shifts between hu...

The movement of human populations across the planet has character ized human societies throughout history. Historically, resource scarcity or depletion has induced this movement. In recent years, rural populations and their relationships to their environment are again attracting growing interest, especially in connection with population change and particularly migration. Rural areas contain mos...

We construct a general equilibrium model of urban unemployment with a continuum of heterogeneous urban firms producing differentiated products in a monopolistic competitive market. We show that an increase in urban institutionally fixed minimum wage reduces urban aggregate output and each urban firm will experience an output cut proportional to the change in aggregate output. However, such prop...

Temporary labor migration in developing countries is an important urban ^ rural linkage that has a potential impact on rural development. According to the new economies of labor migration, it is often a strategy used by families with small farms to acquire investment capital for future business formation. In this paper, I argue further that human-capital accretion during migration reinforces th...

AIMS Limited data are available about whether rural-urban migration, often characterized by exposure to urban life stress and a reduction in social network and support, can affect the prevalence of illicit drug use and hazardous/harmful drinking. The purpose of our study was to examine the prevalence of these risky behaviours among Thai young adults and to describe their association between the...

China’s internal migration is estimated at >120 million; farmers make up 70% of them. There are 4.5 million Chinese suffering from TB, cause of highest number of death from infectious diseases. We ask “Is out-migration for work a risk factor of TB?” In 2002-04 we studied 160 new TB cases and 320 controls in rural Henan. Results of statistical analyses confirm that work migration is a significan...