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The effect of remittances on return migration and its relation to household wealth: The case of rural Thailand
- Source: Asia-Pacific Population Journal, Volume 25, Issue 2, Sep 2011, p. 53 - 96
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- 06 Sep 2011
Abstract
When Ravenstein (1885) in writing on the “laws of migration” stated that each current of migration produces a compensating countercurrent, return migration has been acknowledged as important to any thorough understanding of migration. Yet, for many years the view of migration as primarily a one-way phenomenon dominated empirical inquiries. While studies have focused on the departure of migrants, the migration journey, arrival, settlement and integration, the return of migrants has received far less attention (King, 2000).
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