Research Catalog

Title

Population mobility and productive relations : demographic links and policy evolution / Guy Standing.

Author

Standing, Guy.

Publication

Washington, D.C., U.S.A. : World Bank, ©1984.

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Description

vii, 51 pages; 28 cm.

Summary

This analysis considers changing patterns of population mobility in terms of shifts in productive structure and social relations of production. It is based on the premise that migration analysis cannot be divorced from an historical perspective, and in particular, that in many low-income regions recent changes in population mobility have to be understood in terms of the colonial legacy and the attempted transition to capitalist industrialization. In that context, it concludes with a critical review of government policies designed or expected to influence migration rates and patterns, arguing that often the policies have effects quite contrary to those intended by their advocates. There is a danger that desperate movement by the world's poor will be a main cause of economic stagnation, unemployment and poverty; however, severe measures taken to control this movement, which deny the human right to freedom of movement, should not be allowed to supersede measures tackling the underlying structural causes of the perceived maldistribution of the population.

Series Statement

World Bank staff working papers ; no. 695. Population and development series ; no. 20

Uniform Title

• World Bank staff working paper ; no. 695.
• World Bank staff working paper. Population and development series ; no. 20.

Subject

• Migration, Internal
• Migration, Internal > Developing countries
• Migration, Internal > Government policy
• Population Dynamics
• internal migration
• Migration
• Developing countries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN

• 0821304550
• 9780821304556

LCCN

84025819

OCLC

• ocm11469700
• 11469700
• SCSB-627598

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library