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This Handbook offers a comprehensive collection of essays that cover essential features of geographical mobility, from internal migration, to international migration, to urbanization, to the adaptation of migrants in their destinations. Part I of the collection introduces the range of theoretical perspectives offered by several social science disciplines, while also examining the crucial relationship between internal and international migration. Part II takes up methods, ranging from how migration data are best collected to contemporary techniques for analyzing such data. Part III of the handbook contains summaries of present trends across all world regions. Part IV rounds out the volume with several contributions assessing pressing issues in contemporary policy areas. The volume's editor Michael J. White has spent a career studying the pattern and process of internal and international migration, urbanization, and population distribution in a wide variety of settings, from developing societies to advanced economies. In this Handbook he brings together contributors from all parts of the world, gathering in this one volume both geographical and substantive expertise of the first rank. The Handbook will be a key reference source for established scholars, as well as an invaluable high-level introduction to the most relevant topics in the field for emerging scholars

From Greek antiquity to the latest theories, this historical survey of political philosophy not only covers the major thinkers in the field but also explores the theme of how political philosophy relates to the nature of man. It illustrates how the great political thinkers have always grounded their political thought in what the author terms a "normative anthropology," which typically has not only ethical but metaphysical and/or theological components. Starting with the ancient Greek Sophists, author Michael J. White examines how thinkers over the centuries have approached such polit

Contents -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. A Tidal Wave of Immigration? The Scale of the Contemporary Immigration Flow -- Chapter 3. Revisiting Assimilation Theory -- Chapter 4. Immigration and Immigrant Policy -- Chapter 5. School: Educational Attainment of Immigrants and the Second Generation -- Chapter 6. Work: Labor Market Achievement -- Chapter 7. Neighborhood: Residential Assimilation of Immigrants and Ethnic Groups -- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Immigrant Assimilation and Social Policy -- Notes -- References -- Index

One: Introduction: The Immortal Chimpanzee at its Typewriter -- A. Plenitude and the Temporal-Frequency Model of the Modalities -- B. Plenitude and Atomist Cosmology? -- C. Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- Two: The Legacy of Aristotle -- A. Pitfalls -- B. Three Types of Necessity -- C. Aristotle's Fundamental Modal Principle -- D. Absolute Necessity and the Ultimate Mover -- E. Aristotle and Determinism -- F. The Energeia-Kin?sis Distinction and Aristotelian Determinism -- G. Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- Three: Diodorean Fatalism -- A. Diodorus the Megarian? -- B. Diodorus'Denial of Motion -- C. Diodorus' Account of the Alethic Modalities and His Fatalism -- D. The Master Argument and Diodorean Fatalism -- E. Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- Four: Chrysippus' Compatibilism -- A. The Avoidance of Necessity and Retention of Fate -- B. "Obscure Causes" and Chrysippus' Compatibilism -- C. "What Is Up to Us" and Fate -- D. Chrysippean and Spinozistic Reconciliationism -- E. Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- Five: Peripatetic Polemics -- A. Stoic and Peripatetic Conceptions of Heimarmen? -- B. Causal/Temporal Sequences: Stoic and Peripatetic Conceptions -- C. A Fronte Conditional Necessity -- D. A Tergo Conditional Necessity -- E. Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- Six: Cosmic Cycles, Time, and Determinism -- A. Two Versions of Cosmic Cycles -- B. Cosmic Cycles and the Temporal-Frequency Model of the Modalities -- C. Cosmic Cycles and the Actuality of the Future -- D. Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- Seven: Plotinus and Human Autonomy -- A. Book III of the Nicomachean Ethics and its Aftermath -- B. A Stoic Metaphysical Move -- C. Moral Responsibility and Aristotle's Predicament -- D. Plotinus and Ennead 3 -- E. Plotinus and Ennead 6 -- F. The Constative and Performative Views of Responsibility-Attribution -- G. Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- Eight: Philosophical Postscript -- A. The Temporal-Frequency Model of the Alethic Modalities -- B. Responsibility and Determinism -- Notes -- Notes -- Index Locorum -- Index of Names.

RésuméCet essai présente les tendances récentes des migrations et de l'urbanisation dans les pays du Sud à la lumière des tendances historiques et contemporaines des pays du Nord. Les perceptions de la migration et de l'urbanisation sont importantes en ce qu'elles peuvent orienter les mesures politiques au plus haut niveau, et pourtant les enjeux de la répartition de la population sont parfois mal compris. Malgré les difficultés à mesurer correctement la migration et l'urbanisation, ces phénomènes révèleront beaucoup sur les inégalités sociales, le développement économique et les changements de l'environnement au cours du 21ème siècle. Dans le même temps, les effets de la migration et de l'urbanisation ne sont pas nécessairement simples ni uniformes dans tous les pays. La migration rurale-urbaine contribue à la croissance urbaine mais le rôle de l'accroissement urbain, de la migration urbaine-rurale et de la migration de retour ne doit pas être négligé. Chercheurs et politiques auraient tout intérêt à incorporer migrations nationales et internationales dans des cadres conceptuels élargis, notamment en ce qui concerne les questions d'assimilation et d'intégration sociale. Il est nécessaire de rassembler plus de données sur les tendances de la mobilité géographique et de ses déterminants, quelles que soient les frontières nationales ou internationales traversées. SummaryThis essay analyzes current trends in migration and urbanization for the contemporary Global South in light of historical and recent trends in the Global North. Perceptions of migration and urbanization are important in that they may drive policy at the highest levels, yet population redistribution is sometimes inadequately understood. Despite continuing challenges regarding adequate measurement, urbanization and migration will have much to say about social inequality, economic development, and environmental change in the 21st century. At the same time, the effects of migration and urbanization are not necessarily simple nor are they uniform across ...

The concept of succession is well established in both ecological and economic models of urban residential change, yet much remains unknown about the determinants of succession in urban neighborhoods. Employing longitudinal census tract data for four cities, this article predicts racial composition of neighborhoods as a function of earlier-period racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and physical characteristics. There is support for aspects of the ecological and filtering models of succession, although many elements of the process are not generally applicable across time and place.