Back to Brit: retired British migrants returning from Spain

Since the seminal research of O'Reilly, Karen [2000. The British on the Costa del Sol. London: Routledge] and King, Russell, Anthony Warnes, Allan Williams [2000. Sunset Lives: British Retirement Migration to the Mediterranean. New York: Berg Publishers] about British citizens on the Costa del Sol there has been a surge in the publication of lifestyle migration papers, books and research. Nonetheless, there is a part of the lifestyle migration process that has been rarely explored: a return move to the country of origin following retirement migration. Research has indicated a broad increase in the number of older British returnees, yet there has been no substantive research on the topic. This paper therefore attempts to fill this gap by using Spanish registry data to examine the number of British retirees since 2009 who have returned to the UK. In addition, the results of an electronic survey to older British people in Spain are presented which suggest that considerable numbers of British citizens aged over 55 living in the Northern Costa Blanca are likely to return in the next few years. These data therefore indicate the relevance of return migration from Spain to the UK as a significant issue to the academic community as well as to British and Spanish policy-makers.     

Europe's failed ‘fight’ against irregular migration: ethnographic notes on a counterproductive industry

Despite Europe's mass investments in advanced border controls, people keep arriving along the continent's shores under desperate circumstances. European attempts to ‘secure’ or ‘protect’ the borders have quite clearly failed, as politicians themselves increasingly recognise – yet more of the same response is again rolled out in response to the escalating ‘refugee crisis’. Amid the deadlock, this article argues that we need to grasp the mechanics and logics of the European ‘border security model’ in order to open up for a change of course. Through ethnographic examples from the Spanish-African borders, the article shows how the striving for border security under a prevailing emergency frame has generated absurd incentives, negative path dependencies and devastating consequences. At Europe's frontiers, an industry of border controls has emerged, involving European defence contractors, member state security forces and their African counterparts, as well as a range of non-security actors. Whenever another ‘border crisis’ occurs, this industry grows again, feeding on its own apparent ‘failures’. This vicious cycle may be broken, the article concludes, once policy-makers start curtailing the economies of border security underpinning it – yet the challenges are formidable as the industry retrenches along with the political response to the drama it has itself produced.     

新经济地理学视角下的劳动力跨省转移机制研究--以长三角城市群为例

新经济地理学理论认为劳动力出于商品多样性偏好和节约商品运输成本的目的集聚于厂商集聚的地区。文章以长三角城市群为例,利用第六次人口普查数据和NEG模型研究了劳动力流动跨省迁移的影响因素,着重考察了市场潜能对劳动力跨省迁移的作用。研究发现：市场潜能对劳动力跨省迁移有显著的正向效应,从而证明了新经济地理学的“前向联系”;地理距离对劳动力跨省迁移有弱化效应,但没有通过显著性检验;工资水平、就业率、边界效应对劳动力跨省迁移有显著的正向效应。     

The impact of migration on the well-being of transnational families: new data from sending communities in Mexico

We present results from a new study of the effects of migration to the USA on the well-being of transnational families in high emigration communities within Mexico. Our survey measured the well-being of family members in a variety of domains: economic, health, education, and child development for a representative sample drawn from high migration municipalities. Compared to those with no recent emigrants to the USA, Mexican households sending non-caregivers to the USA appear to gain economically without contributing to problems faced by children. However, when family caregivers migrate to the USA, the remaining members in Mexico struggle to meet the family's needs and children are more vulnerable to educational, emotional, and health problems. Children in households where a caregiver migrated were more likely to have frequent illnesses (10% vs. 3%, p<0.0001), chronic illness (7% vs. 3%, p=0.011), emotional problems (10% vs. 4%, p=0.006), and behavioral problems (17% vs. 10%, p=0.018) compared with children in households where the migrant was not a caregiver. Research, policy, and program implications of these findings are discussed.     

Immigration: Not a Solution to Problems of Population Decline and Aging

Population and Environment - This article is a synopsis of a UN study, with emphasis on Italy and the United States. In March, 2000, the United Nations Population Division published a 143-page...     

我国官员财产申报制度及其绩效

财产申报制度作为防治腐败的科学机制之一,为世界大多数国家所借鉴。跟进性制度创新其实就是一种制度移植,基于此,以政策移植理论为研究工具,结合我国官员财产申报制度化面临的一些困境与难题,对官员财产申报制度构建进行前瞻性审视与思考,并提出相关对策以期带来制度绩效的最大化。     

人口老龄化背景下的城乡劳动力资源变动趋势对比研究——兼论乡城劳动力流迁及其影响

文章以2010年第六次人口普查数据为基础,采用多区域人口预测模型,利用PADIS软件对未来40年城镇和农村劳动力资源总量、结构及未来发展趋势进行对比分析,研究发现,中国劳动年龄人口规模在2014年出现高峰,到2025年开始呈快速下降趋势.受中国二元经济结构影响,劳动年龄人口结构也呈现出城乡分化的差异性特征.未来城镇劳动力资源总量总体呈增加趋势,但会经历先增后减的过程,农村劳动力资源呈逐年下降.从结构观察,城乡劳动年龄人口占总人口的比例均呈现不断下降的趋势,各时期城镇劳动年龄人口占比都高于农村.城镇劳动力老化趋势明显,农村劳动力则经历不断老化再到相对合理的过程.     

生态移民研究综述

随着生态环境的日益恶化,从20世纪90年代末开始,我国西部地区出现了真正意义上的生态移民现象,学者们对此进行了广泛研究,这些研究主要从经济的角度考察了我国生态移民的现状,提出了其中存在的问题及解决对策。由于生态移民不仅仅是一种经济行为,更触动了民族生活方式的改变等重大问题,今后的研究有必要侧重于移民社会的文化变迁及文化适应等人类学与社会学课题。     

对大学生进行爱情婚姻教育的理性思考

对大学生进行爱情婚姻教育是十分必要的,它们是终身教育的重要组成部分。爱情婚姻教育目的在于形成健康的爱情观、婚姻观;爱情婚姻教育的内容包括恋爱观教育、婚姻家庭观教育及现代性别观教育。     

Mr.J.F.McLennan's Study of Polyandry

John F.McLennan is well known for introducing the terms of “exogamy” and “en-dogamy” in Primitive Marriage:An Inquiry into the Origins of the Form of Capture in Marriage Ceremo-nies(1865) .In this book...