Objective To assess the health cost (or benefit) of crisis driven migration by focusing on the infant mortality rate (IMR) of the Colombian diaspora in Venezuela and the Venezuelan diaspora in Colombia. Methods We compare national to diaspora IMRs over the period 1980-2018. National IMRs are death-to-birth ratios reported by the official vital stat...
In Africa, international migration to the Global North is often interpreted as a means to achieve upward social mobility. This article highlights the importance of considering the socio-economic and political transformations that form migration aspirations, especially among African youths. Simultaneously, increasing restrictive migration regimes im...
When refugees' access to economic, political, and social rights cannot be guaranteed in one locale, individuals make pragmatic choices about what relationships to sustain with authorities elsewhere, even with those that caused their flight in the first place. This process of return is rarely akin to conventional repatriation, understood as the full...
This book examines international out-migration from North India, focusing on the state of Punjab. It is the first-ever empirical exploration of the causes, processes, patterns and consequences of international out-migration based on a robust sample of 10,000 households drawn from both rural and urban areas. The volume explores a range of issues suc...
Les migrations en provenance d’Afrique subsaharienne suscitent, en France, une tension dans les débats publics qui ne se relâche pas depuis le début des années 2000. Au gré des images spectaculaires, relayées par les médias, qui montrent des Africains aux frontières européennes, ou de publications sensationnalistes qui promettent une «ruée vers l’E...
Parler de diaspora chinoise, permet de prendre en compte à la fois les immigrés arrivés de Chine, ou des Chines (République populaire, Taiwan, Hong Kong et Macao), et les immigrés arrivés des communautés chinoises outre-mer, en particulier les réfugiés du Sud-est asiatique de culture chinoise. Au-delà des différentes routes de migration et d’exil, ...
In recent years, a growing number of studies have highlighted the role of technology in facilitating the circulation of the information and images that underpin migrants’ journeys and aspirations. However, less attention has been paid to the social circumstances that obstruct these communication flows. Based on ethnographic work in Italy and Eritre...
Dans la conclusion, l'auteure propose une lecture personnelle des diférentescontributions de ce numéro à travers un double exercice de mise en perspective théorique, en s'appuyant sur ses propres recherches sur les retours en contexte africain.Dans un premier temps, elle fait ressortir la manière dont les articles mettent en lien les concepts de "r...
