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In this paper, the perspectives of (Critical) Migration Research and (Critical) Peace and Conflict Research on migration are discussed, compared and combined with the goal of proposing a "Peace Logical Migration Research" ("Friedenslogische Migrationsforschung").

The 1991 Migration Research Study in Ghana was formulated as a sub-contract component of a comprehensive project, "Strengthening the Capacity of the Statistical Service for Demographic Analysis", with funding from the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA). These two volumes present the analysis of the study. The first volume deals with internal migration, treating themes like population redistribution and settlement schemes; processes and mechanisms of internal migration; streams, perceptions and traditional systems; internal migration and development; and the effects of migration on women and children. The second volume, which is on international migration, concentrates on topics such as the effects of international migration on socio-economic development, international return migration as well as special issues related to population movement between Ghana and other ECOWAS countries. (DÜI-Hff)

This book focuses on the latest advances and challenges in interregional migration research. Given the increase in the availability of "big data" at a finer spatial scale, the book discusses the resulting new challenges for researchers in interregional migration, especially for regional scientists, and the theoretical and empirical advances that have been made possible. In presenting these findings, it also sheds light on the different migration drivers and patterns in the developed and developing world by comparing different regions around the globe. The book updates and revisits the main academic debates in interregional migration, and presents new emerging lines of investigation and a forward-looking research agenda.

Lebanese from all social and economic classes were attracted by the international migration movement of the nineteenth century. Men and women, married and single, middle class and underprivileged all sought their fortune through migration. Rather surprisingly, given the patriarchal norms of Middle Eastern society, Christian as well as Muslim married women sometimes emigrated without their husbands and families, for, as A. Khater notes, they "had their [own] reasons to leave… Some wanted to escape an unhappy marriage, others sought a better financial status, and a few were after adventure, but most went looking for the 'family'."

Hauptbeschreibung: Die differierenden Traditionen der Migrationsforschung in unterschiedlichen Ländern hängen eng mit nationalen Politikmustern und dem Selbstverständnis des jeweiligen Nationalstaats zusammen - entweder affirmativ verstärkend oder kritisch hinterfragend. Stellt man sie nebeneinander, so wird vieles fraglich und diskutierbar, was vorher selbstverständlich schien. Im vorliegenden Band werden die Migrationsforschungstraditionen in zwölf Ländern vorgestellt: den traditionellen Einwanderungsländern Kanada und Australien, vier europäischen Ländern mit inzwischen jahrzehntelanger Einwa

Historical migration research is as complex as the history of migrations as such. Distinctions between 'economic' and 'refugee migrations,' between 'subsistence migrations' and 'betterment migrations,' or between 'voluntary' and 'unintentional' migrations remain superficial as long as we do not take sufficiently into account the fact that there are no clear boundries between motivations of migrants, patterns of migration, and migrant identities. There is, therefore, a multitude of approaches in historical migration research, including e.g. micro-historical, meso- and macro-historical approaches as well as multilevel migration theories, individual or group specific dimensions, and quantitative analyses of highly aggregated mass data. Given all the differences between past and present situations, outcomes of historical migration research in the sense of applied migration research may offer orientation guidelines in many fields: even for the evaluation and interpretation of migration and integration processes today and for their consequences for the economy, societies, and cultures in areas or countries of origin as well as in those of destination.