Following a surge in civil unrest, the need and ambitions to migrate have increased among young Cameroonians. This article explores how Cameroonian youth graduates use education as gateway for migration, selecting new routes destinations maximise their chances of migration. Drawing on in-depth interviews with aspiring migrants, I show that long-standing aspirations led symbiotic relationship be...

The brief for this overview paper was to examine the possible impacts for children and youth exposed to international migration between developing countries. The overview of available data and research is exhaustive and well achieved in the paper. It would be hard to add to this overview, so this critique explores whether internal (within country) migration should be added to the brief. Then, I...

The overview paper by Harttgen and Klasen was commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation to map the existing state of research on the topic of “child and youth migration in ...developed nations”. It was intended to indicate the strengths and weaknesses of the current knowledge base as a means for evaluating the circumstances of child migrants in the area surveyed, and to suggest areas for futur...

Using unique survey data collected from respondents attending university in North Macedonia (N=423), this paper investigates students’ decisions on intended emigration. The study is set within the regional context of high youth migration Western Balkans and involves comparisons with an earlier, similar Albania. Results for indicate that those more likely to leave country are undergraduate (as o...

The combined effect of lowered fertility and improved health and longevity has generated growing numbers and proportions of the elderly throughout the world. This desk-review study is based on available secondary information from published and unpublished sources including web searches. The dependency ratio is showing an increasing trend in Nepal because of youth migration. Therefore, a holisti...

Migration is considered a significant source of unnatural population growth and, after natural increase, major factor responsible for growth. It includes changing the places residence individuals, groups, and families settling them in new environment, order to provide better life welfare than their previous residence. There are many different kinds migration, which caused by number factors, hav...