Population mobility and development: Southeast Asia and the Pacific
Anonymous
Monograph, Development Studies Centre, Australian National University 27: 474
1981
Document Number: 396435
The monograph brings together papers presented to an international conference held at the Australian National University in October 1980 to consider policy issues for development planners arising out of population mobility. The 17 papers presented are divided into five sections. The groups of papers in Part A seeks to place current ideas in perspective. Each lays its main stress on the circular type of population movement, in which place of residence is not shifted, or is only temporarily shifted, rather than a long-term relocation. The second part presents findings of micro-level studies of population mobility in different regions of Southeast Asia. Although the approaches and emphases in the four papers differ, the unifying theme is the variety of mobility patterns and the analysis of source and destination linkages: in family ties, patterns of remittances, return movement and employment. The emphasis of the four papers in Part C is similar to that in the previous section, but with a focus on the Pacific. Part D includes four papers dealing with urbanization adjustment problems of migrants to urban areas, the role of intermediate towns and the influence of changing transport patterns in population mobility. The final part looks at the need to optimize rural employment patterns at a time of rapid economic change, and to maximize the benefits and minimize the costs of the rural-urban flow of labour. It also discusses the most effective policy instruments to lessen disparities between regions, of which internal migration is a symptom. Papers from parts B, C and E are abstracted individually. The monograph brings together papers presented to an international conference held at the Australian National University in October 1980 to consider policy issues for development planners arising out of population mobility. The 17 papers presented are divided into five sections. The groups of papers in Part A seeks to place current ideas in perspective. Each lays its main stress on the circular type of population movement, in which place of residence is not shifted, or is only temporarily shifted, rather than a long-term relocation. The second part presents findings of micro-level studies of population mobility in different regions of Southeast Asia. Although the approaches and emphases in the four papers differ, the unifying theme is the variety of mobility patterns and the analysis of source and destination linkages: in family ties, patterns of remittances, return movement and employment. The emphasis of the four papers in Part C is similar to that in the previous section, but with a focus on the Pacific. Part D includes four papers dealing with urbanization adjustment problems of migrants to urban areas, the role of intermediate towns and the influence of changing transport patterns in population mobility. The final part looks at the need to optimize rural employment patterns at a time of rapid economic change, and to maximize the benefits and minimize the costs of the rural-urban flow of labour. It also discusses the most effective policy instruments to lessen disparities between regions, of which internal migration is a symptom.