We know that internal migration shapes human settlement patterns, but few attempts have
been made to measure systematically the extent of population redistribution or make …

With increases in the availability of geo‐referenced data, there has been a push for
developing better methods to study demographic processes across space. This paper …

In tourism studies, new means of data collection are opening up opportunities for disclosing
hidden mobility patterns. This paper aims to analyze and model the tourist flow networks for …

The classical foundations of migration research date from the 1880s with Ravenstein's Laws
of migration, which represent the first comparative analyses of internal migration. While his …

This chapter sets the case-study countries of Chapters 5–11 in a wider context. It does so by
presenting evidence on migration levels and trends for a wider range of countries across the …

A political discussion has recently erupted over the return of migrant kayayei (head porters)
from Northern Ghana. Return migrants were studied meagrely with regard to their …

The COVID‐19 pandemic has potentially altered the system of population movement around
the world. As COVID‐19 hit cities the hardest in the wake of the pandemic, apocalyptic …

This open access book presents a ground-breaking approach to developing micro-
foundations for demography and migration studies. It offers a unique and novel methodology …

Internal migration, the movement of people between localities and regions within a country,
has resulted in a significant redistribution of national populations. Past cross-national …

While considerable progress has been made in understanding the way particular aspects of
internal migration, such as its intensity, age profile and spatial impact, vary between …