Crossing the Divide

Chapter 1: An Introduction and Preview

Chapter 2: Data Sources and Issues in Measurement 2.1. Lifetime Migration 2.2. Interim Moves 2.3. Some Comparisons of Alternative Measurement Approaches 2.4. An Implication: Symmetry or Asymmetry in Moves between Rural and Urban Areas?

Chapter 3: Country-Specific Magnitudes of Migration between Rural and Urban Sectors 3.1. Measurement Results 3.2. The Country-Specific Contexts. 3.3. Closing Remarks

Chapter 4: Who Migrates, Who Stays? 4.1. A Literature Summary 4.2. New Evidence: Characterizing the Movers

Chapter 5: Economic Motives and Barriers to Internal Migration 5.1. Labor Migration: The Individualistic View 5.2. Family Decisions and the New Economics of Labor Migration 5.3. On Barriers to Internal Migration 5.4. Extending the Evidence: Selection and the Returns to Migration and Staying

Chapter 6: The Roles of Social Networks 6.1. Social Networks and Internal Migration: Approaches and Limitations 6.2. Gravity Models and the Dynamics of Cumulative Inertia 6.3. Urban Networks in Rural-Urban Migration: Nationally Representative Estimates 6.4. Exploring Multiple Networks 6.5. Networks at Origin 6.6. A Summing Up

Chapter 7: The Impermanence of Moves: Return and Onward Migration 7.1. Evidence on the Impermanence of Moves 7.2. Return Migration 7.3. Selection and Upward Mobility among Rural-Urban Migrants 7.4. Short-term, Seasonal Migration 7.5. Notes on Repeat and Step Migration

Chapter 8: Impacts of Migration upon Families 8.1. Migrant Departure and the Living Standards of Those Left Behind 8.2 Couples: Cohabitation and Migration 8.3. Migration and the Well-being of Children

Chapter 9: In Perspective: A Summing Up 9.1. Rural-Urban Migration and Urbanization 9.2. The Role of Rural-Urban Migration in Economic Development 9.3. The Incidence and Importance of Temporary Moves 9.4. The Gender Balance in Crossing the Rural-Urban Divide 9.5. Implications for the Structure and Well-Being of Families 9.6. Rural-urban Migration: The Policy Framework 9.7. A Postscript: The COVID Pandemic

Appendix A: Data Sources and Issues in Measurement Appendix B: Country-Specific Magnitudes of Migration between Rural and Urban Sectors Appendix C: Who Migrates, Who Stays? Appendix D: Economic Motives and Barriers to Internal Migration Appendix E: The Roles of Social Networks Appendix F: The Impermanence of Moves: Return and Onward Migration Appendix G: Impacts of Migration upon Families

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