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  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,952 Views
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Measuring International Migration in Azerbaijan

  • Serhat Yüksel,
  • Shahriyar Mukhtarov,
  • Ceyhun Mahmudlu,
  • Jeyhun I. Mikayilov and
  • Anar Iskandarov

10 January 2018

International migration significantly affects economic, social, cultural, and political factors of the country. Owing to this situation, it can be said that the reasons of international migration should be analyzed in order to control this problem. T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integrated Migration Management, ICTs' enhanced Responses and Policy Making: Towards Human Centric Migration Management Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,077 Views
22 Pages

5 April 2021

Migration is one of the key aspects of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To understand global migration patterns, develop scenarios, design effective policies, focus on the population’s needs, and identify how these needs change over time, we...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,812 Views
10 Pages

A Chaos Theory Perspective on International Migration

  • Anca Tănasie,
  • Raluca Drăcea and
  • Georgiana Raluca Lădaru

17 December 2017

This paper aims at providing a different approach to international migration analysis, beyond classical models previously proposed by specialized literature. Chaos theory is getting more and more applied into macroeconomics once traditional linear mo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Towards Resilient Entrepreneurship and Technological Development in Self-Sustainable Economies)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,426 Views
19 Pages

This study examines the determinants of internal migration of working-age population among provinces in Spain in the aftermath of the economic crisis. It pays special attention to two features of migration that have not been sufficiently studied so f...

  • Review
  • Open Access
62 Citations
18,237 Views
11 Pages

International migration has become one of the most debated topics in many developed and developing countries. Host countries are concerned about the socioeconomic consequences of international migration, while sending countries—from a developing coun...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Long-Run Economic Impacts of International Migration)
  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,229 Views
32 Pages

A Literature Review on the Usage of Agent-Based Modelling to Study Policies for Managing International Migration

  • Gabriele De Luca,
  • Thomas J. Lampoltshammer,
  • Shahanaz Parven and
  • Johannes Scholz

9 August 2022

This literature review is dedicated to the subject of agent-based modelling for the system of international migration, and of the modelling of policies that are known to aid in its management. The reason for the selection of agent-based modelling as...

(This article belongs to the Section International Migration)
  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
46,593 Views
10 Pages

This paper explores the concept of migration, and its causes and effects, with a focus on international migration. Various journal articles, reports, and policy documents are reviewed to address the controversies concerning the concept and key issues...

  • Article
  • Open Access
732 Views
17 Pages

This study examines the transformation of the Balaton region in Hungary from a traditional tourist destination into an international retirement migration destination for older adults from Western Europe. Migration theories and models are applied to i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges and Development Opportunities for Tourism in Rural Areas)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
10,007 Views
18 Pages

18 November 2019

This article examines how international law in form of treaties deals with the intersection of the three concepts. Our hypothesis is that international law, in the form of treaties, has been reluctant to engage with national security when dealing wit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Refugees and International Law: The Challenge of Protection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
280 Views
26 Pages

19 September 2026

International migration is often considered an important factor in housing market dynamics, yet its relationship with residential property prices remains uncertain, particularly in developing economies. This study examined whether changes in internat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,067 Views
16 Pages

18 March 2024

The international migration network, comprising the movements of people between countries, is one of the most important global systems of interaction, which can reflect the complex international relations of economics, cultures, and politics and has...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human Geography: Interrelationships between People, Place, and the Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,242 Views
20 Pages

Europe has experienced a growing divergence in trends of population change across the urban hierarchy. A key driver of this divergence is internal migration, which underpins the efficient functioning of the economy by enhancing labor market flexibili...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,257 Views
21 Pages

21 August 2024

This study investigated whether economic motivations are a key factor in international migration decisions. Applying the selectivity-corrected expected income for migrants and stayers, the difference in expected income for an individual in origin and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Economics of Migration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,910 Views
15 Pages

Background: This study aimed to examine the association of internal migration experience with depressive symptoms among middle-aged and elderly Chinese, as well as explore possible mechanisms of the relationship. Methods: Participants were from the C...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Migration, Resilience, Vulnerability and Migrants’ Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,432 Views
23 Pages

9 February 2021

Living in a world where we can expand our economic wealth and the richness of human life is the core of the human development concept. Greater well-being for all can be achieved by improving people’s capabilities and more importantly, by giving indiv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Economic Complexity and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,427 Views
15 Pages

To Float or Not to Float? Internal Migration of Skilled Laborers in China

  • Yanqiao Zheng,
  • Xiaoqi Zhang,
  • Qiwen Dai and
  • Xing Zhang

This paper uses data from job-recruiting platforms to study the distribution patterns and migration destination choices of a skilled internal migrant population. We find that, in most first-tier cities and most emerging second-tier cities, more than...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,088 Views
20 Pages

9 February 2026

Background: Medical students are a vulnerable population with elevated cardiometabolic and mental health risks. Dietary habits are key modifiable behaviors that may mitigate these risks, yet social and contextual determinants such as internal migrati...

(This article belongs to the Section Public Health and Preventive Medicine)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,063 Views
19 Pages

28 May 2025

As China’s regional development enters a critical stage of population redistribution and urban transformation, the impact of population mobility on regional demographic structures and urban functional restructuring has become increasingly promi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Demographic Change and Sustainable Development)
  • Data Descriptor
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,477 Views
16 Pages

4 April 2019

Given downward trends in fertility and mortality, population dynamics –and thus the

estimation of spatially-explicit population dynamics and gridded population and derivative

products– are increasingly sensitive to mobility processes and th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spatial Denominators: Modeling Population and Demographic Distributions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
309 Views
18 Pages

2 September 2026

In the arid regions of southeastern Tunisia, international migration—often driven by declining agricultural yields due to climate change—can be associated with strengthening the resilience of agro-systems through the valorization of migra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate Change Adaptation and Integrated Coastal Zone Management: Ecosystem Services, Coastal Sustainability and Resilience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,319 Views
21 Pages

21 October 2022

Multiples can cause artifacts in imaging; however, they contain information about underground structures. If the internal multiples are removed as a noise, the information contained by the internal multiple will also be removed. This will cause loss...

  • Article
  • Open Access
780 Views
22 Pages

This study adheres to a logistic regression modeling protocol originally developed for long-range intelligence analyses and employs data from UN demographic estimates (the 2024 revision) to generate a set of statistical functions that suggest a moder...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,935 Views
17 Pages

12 September 2012

This article aims to show that the benefits of international migration (often presented as a ‘global flow’) very much depend on the positionality of the areas involved, as well as the regional particularities. It is argued that countries producing so...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue On the Move: Human Migration Past, Present and Future)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,020 Views
12 Pages

Religion and International Migration: A Case Study of Ukraine

  • Wadim Strielkowski,
  • Yuriy Bilan and
  • Oleh Demkiv

2 June 2016

This paper studies the relationships between religion and migration in modern-day Ukraine. We focus on Ukraine’s numerous churches and their attitude toward the phenomenon of emigration, their relevant activities with regard to the outward migration...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,080 Views
19 Pages

4 November 2022

Transportation facilities in the classical migration model expand the scale of population movement by reducing the physical distance and costs of travel between regions. This study empirically analyzes the effect of population inflow into a region ne...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
  • Entry
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,518 Views
21 Pages

Migration Forecasting—Significance and Approaches

  • Johann Fuchs,
  • Doris Söhnlein and
  • Patrizio Vanella

Migration is defined as the permanent change in an individual’s usual residence. Forecasting migration is an important requisite for population forecasts or for planning in fields that depend on the future size and structure of the population, such a...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,020 Views
14 Pages

27 August 2013

While the Maasai have to be among sub-Saharan Africa’s most mobile population due to their traditional transhumant pastoral livelihood strategy, compared with other neighboring ethnic groups they have been relatively late to migrate in substantial nu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue International Migration and Sustainable Development: Globalization, Move-In Move-Out Migration and Translocal Development)
  • Project Report
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,665 Views
73 Pages

Report on Enforcing the Rights of Children in Migration

  • Warren Binford,
  • Michael Garcia Bochenek,
  • Pablo Ceriani Cernadas,
  • Emma Day,
  • Sarah Field,
  • Marci Hamilton,
  • Ton Liefaard,
  • Benyam Mezmur,
  • Fasil Mulatu and
  • Jinske Verhellen
  • + 4 authors

19 October 2023

The ILA Study Group began its work by identifying guiding principles that should frame and inform state practices with respect to children in migration. These principles included, but were not limited to, non-discrimination; the best interests of the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Protecting the Rights of Children in Migration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
783 Views
16 Pages

International migration research is entering a phase in which digitalization reshapes how migration processes are measured, modeled, and governed. At the same time, recent scholarship emphasizes the need to further develop migration theory so that it...

(This article belongs to the Section International Migration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
20,333 Views
10 Pages

Climate Vulnerability and Human Migration in Global Perspective

  • Martina Grecequet,
  • Jack DeWaard,
  • Jessica J. Hellmann and
  • Guy J. Abel

30 April 2017

The relationship between climate change and human migration is not homogenous and depends critically on the differential vulnerability of population and places. If places and populations are not vulnerable, or susceptible, to climate change, then the...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
39 Citations
19,547 Views
13 Pages

10 November 2021

Digitalization and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in migration and mobility have incrementally expanded over recent years. Iterative approaches to AI deployment experienced a surge during 2020 and into 2021, largely due to COVID-19 forcing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges of Post-COVID-19 for a Sustainable Development Society)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,307 Views
22 Pages

26 July 2023

According to the academic debate, the populist radical right is particularly successful in regions that have been left behind economically or culturally. Although civic engagement in networks of civil society, a specific form of social capital, seems...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Regional Development Dynamics and Their Social, Economic and Political Consequences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,798 Views
14 Pages

19 May 2022

This article takes a critical view on austerity policy and examines its social and economic consequences for the case of Greece. By introducing the concept of “growthless employment” it demonstrates that the implementation of internal dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
626 Views
13 Pages

26 May 2026

Context and Objectives: This longitudinal study examined the shifting dynamics of innovation concentration, regional inequality, and internal migration in Israel from 2000 to 2020, analyzing how centralized technological growth correlates with periph...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Urban—Regional Planning for Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,836 Views
21 Pages

25 March 2024

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes the crucial role of the regional dimension for economic, social, and environmental development. Sustainable development may be linked to migration management to strategically disperse internation...

(This article belongs to the Section International Migration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,879 Views
22 Pages

Perceptions of Health Needs among Venezuelan Women Crossing the Border in Northern Chile during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Alice Blukacz,
  • Alejandra Carreño Calderon,
  • Alexandra Obach,
  • Báltica Cabieses,
  • Jeniffer Peroncini and
  • Alejandra Oliva

In parallel to the COVID-19 pandemic, Chile has experienced a significant influx of international migrants, many of whom are Venezuelan women who have entered the country through unauthorized crossing points. In this context, gender and migration int...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Health Disparities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,391 Views
23 Pages

22 November 2019

This paper proposes a critical analysis of the innovative jurisprudential approaches taken by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in integrating the content and scope of protection of the human rights of children, in the context of migration pro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Migrants and Human Rights Protections)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,497 Views
22 Pages

31 August 2025

As Albania emerges not only as a transit country but increasingly as a destination for migrants, its migration policies are undergoing notable shifts. This article examines Albania’s evolving migration governance, focusing on the transition fro...

(This article belongs to the Section International Migration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,412 Views
22 Pages

Determination of Response Factors for Analytes Detected during Migration Studies, Strategy and Internal Standard Selection for Risk Minimization

  • Nikolaos Kritikos,
  • Anna Bletsou,
  • Christina Konstantinou,
  • Antonios-Dionysios Neofotistos,
  • Constantinos Kousoulos and
  • Yannis Dotsikas

31 July 2023

Migration studies are one of the few domains of pharmaceutical analysis employing wide-scope screening methodologies. The studies involve the detection of contaminants within pharmaceutical products that arise from the interaction between the formula...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mass Spectrometry in Pharmaceutical Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
9,725 Views
13 Pages

Vimentin Levels and Serine 71 Phosphorylation in the Control of Cell-Matrix Adhesions, Migration Speed, and Shape of Transformed Human Fibroblasts

  • Emmanuel Terriac,
  • Giovanna Coceano,
  • Zahra Mavajian,
  • Tijmen A. G. Hageman,
  • Andreas F. Christ,
  • Ilaria Testa,
  • Franziska Lautenschläger and
  • Annica K. B. Gad

22 January 2017

Metastasizing tumor cells show increased expression of the intermediate filament (IF) protein vimentin, which has been used to diagnose invasive tumors for decades. Recent observations indicate that vimentin is not only a passive marker for carcinoma...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Beyond Cell Mechanics: Novel Functions of Intermediate Filaments)
  • Opinion
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,810 Views
5 Pages

It has been estimated that more than 50,000,000 children and youth have migrated across borders or been forcibly displaced within their own country. They consist of refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced persons (IDP), economic migrants, and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Children on the Move: The Health of Refugee, Immigrant and Displaced Children)
  • Perspective
  • Open Access
433 Views
17 Pages

17 July 2026

This paper examines how sequenced cross-border health initiatives may contribute to confidence-building and, ultimately, serve as catalyst toward more coherent cross-border migration-related governance in North Africa. Using a practice-based case stu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Health and Migration Challenges for Forced Migrants)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,952 Views
21 Pages

22 April 2021

Background and objectives: Internal fixation is one of the most effective methods for the treatment of proximal femur fractures. The migration of implants after the operation can seriously affect the reduction of treatment and even cause complication...

(This article belongs to the Section Surgery)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,104 Views
21 Pages

Despite longstanding concerns about regional inequalities in both national and EU policy, the concept of ‘left-behindness’ has gained prominence in public and political discourse due to widening social and spatial disparities. A defining...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Economic Development of Rural Areas in Border Territories: Threats and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
27,910 Views
20 Pages

18 August 2022

In the process of migration, the migrant goes through certain stages and a series of transformations that leave their mark on their individuality over time. These unavoidable processes, adaptation, assimilation, and eventually integration, as well as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,180 Views
13 Pages

2 June 2022

Human mobility in the context of disasters and climate change (HMDCC) is a complex problem, which is planetary in scope and intergenerational in its impact. From the mid-seventeenth century’s little ice age to the rising sea levels due to clima...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rule of Law and Human Mobility in the Age of the Global Compacts)
  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
14,997 Views
14 Pages

27 February 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is not a “great equaliser” as some have claimed, but rather an amplifier of existing inequalities, including those associated with migration. Perhaps not surprisingly, it is refugees, often the most marginalised of all migrants,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human Rights and Displaced People in Exceptional Times)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,562 Views
18 Pages

10 February 2022

Using Mandelbaum’s (1973) life history analysis framework, this study analyzed the intersection of female experience, social wellbeing, gender role, and the cost of migration as a female international student in an ethnically homogenous and eth...

(This article belongs to the Section Psychology of Sustainability and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,042 Views
23 Pages

International Migration of Human Resources in the Conditions of Social Transformations

  • Blendi Lami,
  • Iryna Tarasenko,
  • Olha Shyshova,
  • Tatiana Voropayeva and
  • Antonina Verhun

7 September 2022

The complexity and multidimensionality of international migration, as a form of international economic relations in the current conditions of the global economy, requires a review of scientific approaches to its study and understanding. The paper aim...

(This article belongs to the Section International, Regional, and Transportation Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,528 Views
10 Pages

Secondhand smoke (SHS) is a major risk factor for poor health outcomes among women in China, where proportionately few women smoke. This is especially the case as it pertains to women’s reproductive health, specifically migrant women who are exposed...

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