Migration, Urbanization, and Development: New Directions and Issues

Bilsborrow, Richard E.; editor

ISBN 10: 0792380320 / ISBN 13: 9780792380320

Published by UNFPA / Kluver Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA / Dordrecht, 1998

About this Item

Scholarly papers on aspects of movements of rural populations to urban areas & related phenomena in Africa, Brazil, China, India, Peru, Thailand, Bangladesh, Mexico. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, as issued. Light wear, but some bumping to the corners & edges, faded spine, front inner hinge a bit sprung at the title page; minor sporadic pencil marks noted & erased, but I may have missed some. Text mosltly clean; x, 531 pages; tables, maps, figures. Size: Octavo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Migration, Urbanization, and Development: New Directions and Issues
• Publisher: UNFPA / Kluver Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA / Dordrecht
• Publication Date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0792380320
• ISBN 13: 9780792380320
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sociology
  • Anthropology

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Synopsis

International migration and urbanization are key dimensions of the process of socioeconomic development. The unprecedented movement of peoples within the borders of their own countries is undoubtedly one of the greatest transformations of humankind witnessed in the 20th century. International migration, while it has received perhaps less attention, is an equally important process in many societies. Policy analysts, especially those from developing countries where the phe­ nomenon of internal migration can be felt first hand, view migration as among the most important factors affecting the course of development. They conSistently report that understanding the causes and effects of internal migration and urbanization is vital to putting in place poliCies to cope with the stresses and harness the potentials of migration in the most efficient way possible. The world's population will surpass the 6 billion mark in 1998. In just a few years more, another demographic landmark will be reached when over half of the world's population will be urban dwellers. From that point on, the world is forecast to become increasingly urban. Latin America has already gone through this urban revolution and now has an urban population about three times larger than its rural popula­ tion. In the area of urbanization, the greatest changes in the future will occur in Mrica and Asia whose populations are still only about 35 percent urban.

Review

`There is a great deal in this book to attract the student of migration and urbanization. ...there are an enormous numer of new and interesting insights into urbanization... This book is to be highly recommended to students of urbanization, migration, and development in less developed countries. It has a wealth of empirical information and theoretical insights but also indicates the highly limited state of our knowledge about this important area.'
Population Studies, 55 (2001)