Crossing the Divide: Rural to Urban Migration in Developing Countries

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Robert E.B. Lucas (Professor of Economics, Professor of Economics, Boston University)

Crossing the Divide

Rural to Urban Migration in Developing Countries

Robert E.B. Lucas (Professor of Economics, Professor of Economics, Boston University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
03 May 2022

Sociology

A comprehensive examination of the nature, causes, and consequences of internal migration in developing countriesDespite the key role of rural-urban migration in structural transformation and the persistence of lower living standards in the countryside, active policies to reduce, or even reverse, movement into towns are common in major developing regions. Climate change is shifting the calculus: the resulting erosion to agricultural opportunities, combined with increasing frequency of natural disasters, is already resulting in substantial population displacement, mostly internally and into towns in particular. Crossing the Divide examines the nature, causes, and consequences of population movements between the rural and urban sectors of developing countries. Using nationally representative, micro-level data on individuals from seventy-five countries in Africa, the Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and the Caribbean over the course of several decades, Robert E.B. Lucas moves well beyond existing studies to provide the most comprehensive and definitive treatment of internal migration currently available. Lucas analyzes these data on a country-by-country basis, considering both rural-urban and urban-rural movements, to reassess conventional understandings and offer significant new findings on who moves and who stays, the economic incentives and barriers to moving, the role of social networks, return and onward migration, and the impact of migration on families, especially children.

By: Robert E.B. Lucas (Professor of Economics Professor of Economics Boston University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 165mm, Width: 246mm, Spine: 58mm
Weight: 1.066kg
ISBN: 9780197602157
ISBN 10: 0197602150
Pages: 704
Publication Date: 03 May 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robert E.B. Lucas is Professor of Economics, Boston University. He is also Research Affiliate at the Center for International Studies, MIT.

Reviews for Crossing the Divide: Rural to Urban Migration in Developing Countries

Robert E.B. Lucas has masterfully put together the considerable body of literature available on rural to urban migration in the developing world and then adds fresh insights from his own analysis of quantitative data sources that have not previously been analyzed in these ways. The book goes beyond ambitious; it is encyclopedic in scope but, unlike most encyclopedias, has a single voice from a gifted researcher and author. It will make a major contribution to our understanding of internal migration. * Susan Martin, Donald G. Herzberg Professor Emerita of International Migration, Georgetown University *