China on the Move offers a new and more thorough explanation of migration, which
integrates knowledge from geography, population studies, sociology and politics; to help us …

A revised and updated edition of the leading introductory text on the geography of economic
life, from the local to the global Economic Geography is an engaging and accessible …

Established migration theories are mostly based on capitalist market economies and
downplay the role of institutions in internal migration and labor market processes. In socialist …

Max Weber ([1927] 1981, sec. 6C) briefly addressed the sociology of “alien traders” in
comparative economic development. He thus founded what later became known as …

When scholars map the urban geography of racial and ethnic segregation, they privilege the
time when people are at home. When workers commute, however, the tract of residence of …

The purpose of this chapter is to make a series of novel claims, drawing on some of these
literatures to provide evidence, about the social psychology of organizing (see also Homans …

This article analyzes why and how economic and community development planners might
target occupations as well as industries in shaping an economic development strategy. Key …

In this paper we describe a general framework for evaluation and optimization of methods
for diversifying query results. In these methods, an initial ranking candidate set produced by …

This new, fully updated edition of Global Migration provides students with a thorough and
grounded understanding of multiple dimensions of migration, including labour markets …

This article examines two heuristically defined positions regarding the relationship between
international migration and rural economic development in Mexico: thestructuralist' …